Protecting children at risk of abuse and stopping vulnerable children falling through the cracks are at the heart of a ...

The Children's Commissioner has responded to the sentencing of the father and stepmother of Sara Sharif: ...

Until relatively recently practitioners dealing with financial remedy work were rarely troubled by the issue of costs at the conclusion of a contested final hearing. However with the introduction from ...

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has released new simplified divorce and dissolution forms of application. As a result of legislation repealing Council Regulation EC 2201/2003, the ...

The Child Support Agency (CSA) has demanded child support payments from a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple to conceive two children. The couple have since split up and the biological ...

Family analysis: What factors should parties take into consideration in identifying realistic placement options for a child at the start of care proceedings? Sam Momtaz QC and Sharon Segal, of ...

On Friday 4 December 2010, the EU Justice Ministers approved a draft EU Council Regulation about which country's laws should be applied on divorce and legal separation, the so-called applicable law ...

DR WILSON CHENG, Specialty Registrar, Northern Forensic Mental Health Service for Young People All children are entitled to be protected by society, particularly those who are in vulnerable positions.

In his 'View from the President's Chambers: the process of reform: an update' in July 2013, the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, explained his concern at the amount of time and money ...

According to Azhar Hussain, solicitor-Advocate and head of family at Optimal Solicitors, a child arrangement order may be necessary to resolve disagreements regarding where and with who children will ...

Pensions are often one of the most significant assets in divorce and financial proceedings. Happily, the law provides that pensions may be divided between divorcing spouses by virtue of a pension ...

The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that ‘domestic violence' in homelessness cases includes psychological as well as physical abuse. The ruling came in the case of Yemshaw (Appellant) v London ...