Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

divorce on the up

Reported today (on our local radio station at least) was news that divorce is on the up again. anecdotally ancillary relief work is thin on the ground. much amusing speculation by random people off the streets about the reasons for the rates going up, largely ‘the econermy’ or ‘the credit crunch’…I’d be surprised if the [...]

Another take on family court openness

My Dad told me about this story in The Telegraph, where a millionaire divorcee fed up with inaccurate gossip about his allegedly stingy divorce settlement decided to set the record straight. Fair enough Mr Dean, I see where you’re coming from (Hope he feels better now he’s got that off his chest…).

two loos

two reasons for pointing you in the direction of this blog and specifically this post: firstly its a really interesting but tragic post about a 10 year old child bride taking herself off to court to obtain a divorce from the husband who repeatedly raped her (and an interesting blog generally from the looks of [...]

MuccaChucka

What can I say about this game? Most definitely ‘No Comment’. (Thanks to Maryland Divorce Legal Crier for the link)

Intercontinental Mistakes

Oh how true…This post from the Maryland Divorce Legal Crier blog is no less relevant for being from across the pond. It paints an all too familiar picture of the cringeworthy correspondence files I often get sent with my briefs. It makes me want to weep! Its easy enough to get drawn into a pointless [...]

Mills McCartney Award Announced – and Judgment published in full

Well, we all knew there would be some kind of appeal – and apparently it is by way of Heather Mills McCartney appealing the decision to make the full judgment public, due to be heard tomorrow. In the meantime here is a link to the summary of the judgment published today. . In short, Heather [...]

Rex Judicata

A reader of this blog has queried what the legal position is in relation to ‘custody’ of the dog when couples split. So before I pop out to walk my own special pooch here’s a few thoughts: . At first it might sound stupid to be fighting over a dog like it is a child. [...]

Handling your own divorce – who needs lawyers?

District Judge Gerlis has recently written a piece for The Times setting out his ten reasons why representing yourself in a divorce might not be the best idea. No doubt inspired by Heather Mills’ decision to run her own case, I think we’d all agree that where such large sums of money are at stake [...]

Manic Monday

Apparently today is the busiest day of the year for divorce lawyers – everyone has had more than her/his fill of family over Xmas and has resolved to do something about it, so as never to have to endure the hellish season of goodwill in close proximity with his/her spouse (or whoever irks most) ever [...]

new blog

The new ancillary actuary blog is intended to promote discussion of the financial aspects of divorce, amongst the professionals working in that area. I am in deepest darkest West Virginia with nothing but a painfully slow dialup connection so I don’t know if its any good, but here is the link.

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