Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

The Daily Mail and the Moral Crusade

Sir Paul Coleridge may not be on a moral crusade but his Marriage Foundation has certainly inspired the crusading spirit in the Daily Mail (download pdf of article here: It’s down to the judges to mend our divorce laws – they trashed them in the first place By STEVE DOUGHTY if you don’t want to give google [...]

Rats! Why didn’t I think of that?

I’m miffed. There is a pioneering new online service out there called Intelligent Divorce and I think its probably a stroke of genius. Intelligent Divorce is an online service for divorcing couples (or for one half of a divorcing couple) which enables them to access high quality advice from a specialist family barrister at a [...]

T. I. Bankruptcy v A. Relief

There are some old and rather out of date posts on this blog about bankruptcy and ancillary relief. Those interested in the topic can find a more current summary of the law in this crossover area on the Family Law Week site here.

Darling, I’m Changing My Job

My husband always joke (with a rather wan expression on his face) that you should never marry a divorce lawyer. But, for better or for worse, we are still together after over ten years. And now I know why – when marrying a divorce lawyer one does at least go into the thing with eyes open. [...]

Why do Marriages Fall Apart?

I’ve been staring at text all day, so I thought a graphic representation of some dry old figures would be a good idea: Why do Marriages Fall Apart? These stats are for the US rather than the UK, but nonetheless they are instructive, beautiful and Pink. Thankyou @waugaman. AMENDED 01/02/11: I had neglected to notice [...]

Divorce is Cheap

The Observer runs a piece today on the false economy that cut-price online divorce services may represent. Appearing on behalf of The Solicitors is Linda Lee (President, Law Society) and a couple of family solicitors; appearing on behalf of The Websites is Mark Keenan of Divorce Online (previous posts here and here). Of note is [...]

When the Work Wife Balance Goes Wrong

Careeroverview.com have just published their top ten careers with incredibly high divorce rates. It is a slightly surreal collection of job titles, but I’m just pleased (and not a little surprised) that “lawyer” is not on it. We never load the dishwasher. However, those of us who were imminently about to embark upon a career [...]

Lighten Up

You’ve got to laugh in this job or else… A little bit of black Wednesday humour…

The Second Wife Impact

Andrew Commins, a colleague in chambers, has written an interesting article for Family Law Week on the impact of remarriage on variation applications by the ex spouse. I particularly like the mental image described in the extract from Delaney v Delaney [1991] 2 FLR 457, CA, that the court will deprecate “any notion that a former husband and extant [...]

A bit Woolley…

A couple of tweets from @woolleyandco alerted me to some interesting posts on their blog: Andrew Woolley has it spot on about Baroness Deech’s curiously reality-detached approach to humiliating divorce settlements (I think she means demeaning, but anyway). “You say humiliating, I say equality…”. Doesn’t scan but you get the point. And as for the [...]

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