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Adoption Ruling – Some Lifestyles Simply Don’t Fit with Parental Duties
Perhaps the most momentous decision that a judge ever has to make is to separate a child from…
COVID-19 – Do Diving Asset Values Justify Unwinding Divorce Settlements?
The value of many assets has been devastated by COVID-19 – but is that a good enough reason…
Loving Parents of Deceased Baby Girl Exonerated by Family Judge
When healthy children die or suffer serious injury, the finger of suspicion is very often pointed at members…
Family Judge Burns Midnight Oil to Preserve Mother’s and Baby’s Lives
It is not only in fictional dramas that judges are called upon to make emergency life or death…
High Court Tackles Mother’s Implacable Hostility to Paternal Child Contact
The vast majority of mothers recognise that their children thrive best when they have a positive relationship with…
COVID-19 – Court of Protection Sanctions Vaccination of Vulnerable Adult
Many of the most vulnerable members of society lack the mental capacity required to consent to being vaccinated…
High Court Rejects Divorcee’s Bid to Annul Ex-Husband’s Bankruptcy
It is sadly true that bankruptcy proceedings are sometimes used by perfectly solvent individuals for purposes other than…
High Court Ponders Habitual Residence Test in Case of Orphaned Schoolgirl
The legal concept of habitual residence is a notoriously slippery one, but the ease of global travel has…
Child Maintenance – Court Weighs Up Lifestyle Expectations and Resources
Sensible people accept that they have a moral responsibility financially to maintain their children, whether or not they…
Family Judge Deeply Regrets Wealthy Ex-Couple’s Inability to Compromise
Judges often plead with divorcing couples to bury the hatchet rather than subject themselves to the financial and…
Big Money Divorce – Court of Appeal Identifies ‘Double-Counting’ Error
Where a couple’s wealth is more than sufficient to meet their reasonable needs, one might have thought that…
Husband in £64 Million Divorce Case Claims COVID-19 Hardship
COVID-19 has without doubt drastically affected the fortunes of some very wealthy people. As a High Court ruling…
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