This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of proceedings where an extended civil restraint order was made, the response from the Ministry of Justice to its consultation on increases to court and tribunal fees, a consultation in relation to the Supreme Court and the proposed revision of the Supreme Court Rules, an update to the Family Justice Council guidance on sorting out finances on divorce and the most recent minutes of the Family Procedure Rule Committee. Details of a new Practice Note on the disclosure of information between family and criminal agencies and jurisdictions are also set out.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2025, SI 2025/1242. Recent judgments on an application for committal for contempt alleging breaches of two injunctive preservation orders, a successful appeal against care and placement orders and two summary return order applications are also considered. A new client guide on notice to show cause applications has been added, together with the publication of the fifth edition of Lisa Parkinson’s Family Mediation.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes analysis of the application of Hadkinson principles in ongoing enforcement and variation of maintenance proceedings and the legal consequences of artificial or natural insemination. The HMCTS release note in relation to an additional urgent flag in the HMCTS Family Public Law portal is considered. Family Court decisions in relation to care plans for children at risk of serious physical harm and care and placement orders are also set out.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the announcement of plans to establish a new Business and Property Division in the High Court. Analysis of the High Court’s decision holding that an adult daughter was entitled to reasonable financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 notwithstanding her earning capacity and receipt of income above subsistence benefits is included. Recent judgments on summary return orders and directions on whether a child’s birth and proposed adoption should be disclosed to the mother’s husband, wider family and the unidentified biological father are also considered. Information about the new edition of At a Glance 2026–2027 is also set out.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the Family Division consultation on comprehensively revised allocation and gatekeeping guidance for family courts. Recent judgments on applications for judicial review of occupation orders, summary return orders, applications to vary child arrangements orders and fact finding hearings are also considered.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of the first Family Court annual report a decade after its establishment, new Supreme Court Practice Directions and further details of the domestic abuse protection order pilot. Recent judgments on parental orders, care orders and special guardianship orders are considered. The suite of new flowcharts added to Family Practical Guidance in 2024 are also set out.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analyses of cross-border child maintenance after Brexit, together with the power of the Court of Protection to make orders to implement best interests decisions. Details of payment by account number selection for placement applications via the Family Public Law portal are set out. Recent judgments on the disclosure of information from concluded public children proceedings to the disclosure and barring service, special guardianship orders and the determination of local authority accommodation duties under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 are also considered.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analysis of a decision concerning the additional considerations for older intended parents considering international surrogacy. Recent judgments on domestic abuse, applications to set aside return orders and assessment of a solicitor’s conduct where there were issues of client capacity are also included.

This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analyses of the matrimonialisation of pension assets based on common intention and the President's guidance on experts and alienating behaviour in private children cases. Details of amendments to Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), PD 27A in relation to bundles (together with new guidance for preparing court bundles for family proceedings published on 2 March 2026) and FPR 2010, PD 30A in relation to appeals are included. Recent judgments on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, post-adoption contact and disclosure of asylum documents are also considered. Two new Practice Notes have been added on tenancies and relationship breakdown, together with a procedural guide on transfer of tenancy.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of updates to HM Land Registry’s Practice Guide 11 (Inspection and application for official copies) and considers decisions regarding unsupervised contact and placement orders. Details of a new subtopic and overview on variation of financial remedy orders are set out, bringing together a wide range of relevant content on fundamental principles of law, pre-application requirements, procedure and the interaction between variation and enforcement proceedings.

This week’s edition of the Family weekly highlights includes details of the High Court summer vacation. Analysis of a Court of Appeal decision on Wells sharing in financial remedy proceedings is set out. Recent judgments on the Metropolitan Police’s application for public interest immunity over sensitive material following allegations that a child had been trafficked to the UK, appeals against care, placement and prohibited steps orders and consideration of whether an inheritance, received shortly after separation, should be invaded to meet housing needs are considered. A new procedural guide on the variation of financial remedy orders has also been added.

This week's edition of Family weekly highlights includes details of guidance from the Family Justice Council for legal practitioners working with neurodivergent users of the family justice system, additional funding for the pathfinder courts pilot scheme and the extension of the family mediation voucher scheme. Recent judgments including the Court of Appeal’s decision to reverse the anonymisation of family court judges, consideration of overseas adoption and maintenance pending suit and legal service payment orders are also considered. Three new Practice Notes on financial provision for children over 18 are also set out.