Category Archives: Family Law

The High Court confirmed the limited grounds on which an appellate court may interfere with a refusal to remove the father’s surname from that of the child.

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The mother, M, and father, F,

The Court of Appeal (CoA) heard a case regarding the local authority (LA’s) application to compel the return of a British child from a non-Convention country against the parents’ will.

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This

The High Court’s decision to dismiss this defamation claim serves as a critical example of the judiciary’s reluctance to allow courts to be used for the collateral litigation of acrimonious family

The High Court’s decision signals that where parental alienation is acute, and the protective safety net of the Local Authority (LA) is withdrawn or deemed inadequate, the Family Court will not

The Upper Tribunal (UT) enforced the principles of natural justice, ruling that when children genuinely live with both parents, the final decision regarding state benefit entitlement falls exclusively

The High Court confirmed the extension of payments beyond the child’s eighteenth birthday to cover the period of their tertiary education.

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This appeal concerns the extension of the duration

The High Court discharged orders prohibiting the family from taking children abroad and concluded that “clear boundaries have been overstepped”.

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This judgement concerns a family

The High Court has delivered a judgement in a high-stakes financial remedies case, grappling with the complex task of dividing a multi-million-pound fortune that a husband claimed had been devastated

In the latest of no fewer than three judgements in complex and high-value divorce proceedings, the High Court established that a created trust was a sham and awarded the wife a lump sum of

The High Court has provided a clear legal precedent confirming that the confidentiality of private Financial Dispute Resolution (pFDR) meetings is paramount and must be strictly protected.

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