The first Monday of the new year has earned the nickname from legal experts as it is the most popular day to file for divorce.Marital strains come to a head over the festive season as people spend a lot of time together and problems are highlighted.It leads to a deluge of calls to solicitors when [...]
Question: Hello Dr. Scott. So, our daughter has been married less than six months and is already considering a divorce from her husband because she feels like she made the wrong choice. I am wondering how to advise her because we like our son-in-law and feel like he’s a good match for her. On the [...]
Getting divorced can be complicated enough – but if you are an expat couple and the assets you’re dividing up are overseas, it can be even tougher. Cases can take longer, as efforts are made to establish the ownership and whereabouts of money, property and other items. One recent case – that of Michelle Young, [...]
Divorce does more damage to kids than parents like to think. That's the conclusion of a British survey done by the online site Netmums. The site surveyed 1,000 divorced parents and about 100 of their children and got wildly varying results. More than 75 percent of the mothers said their kids had coped well with [...]
Divorce lawyers in Birmingham have revealed that they are bracing themselves for a surge in business on their first week back at work after the Christmas break. Solicitors at Irwin Mitchell dealt with a 25 per cent increase in marriage break up cases last January and are expecting a similar rise in enquiries about relationship [...]
Divorce — even the most amicable — is stressful for children and can create long-lasting difficulties for them. Children’s adjustment to divorce or parent separation is directly related to the intensity and duration of parental conflict; high levels of parent conflict can have enduring and devastating effects on children. (See also Gary Direnfeld’s Reader View: [...]
What is case progression? In an attempt to relieve backlogs in the court lists and improve progress in family law cases, the courts services introduced a new step in family law cases called case progression. Both sides are brought before the County Registrar who checks to see if all the appropriate forms are filled out [...]
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