Pink Tape

a blog from the family bar

Facebook Divorce

Thanks to @nickbilton for the RT of this story in The Telegraph about the number of online divorces citing facebook as a contributory factor. In fact the headline is ‘Facebook Fuelling Divorce Research Claims’ with a strapline of ‘Facebook is being cited in almost one in five of online divorce petitions, lawyers have claimed’. . [...]

Hedge v Hog

What odd times we live in. The Guardian reported on Saturday that hedge fund managers are now betting on the outcome of high worth ancillary relief cases by funding the litigation costs of one party in return for a largeish chunk of the prize. Given that this is the type of arrangement which springs up [...]

How the Millionaires Live

Classy: Businessman sues ex-wife for money spent on children after finding out they were not his. Hat tip to Family Lore Focus.

Ancillary to NOTHING

Where there is no lawful marriage there is no divorce and where there is no divorce there is nothing for ancillary relief to be ancillary to. The BBC reports on the High Court ruling recently in respect of a distant beach marriage that did not create legal ties. Did this poor lady never hear of Jerry [...]

Divorce in Haste Repent at Leisure

Divorce Online offer the ‘UK’s best selling managed divorce service’ for the slender sum of £182. And, their website tells me, this is not the only ‘UK’s best’ they offer: ‘We use the UK’s fastest divorce court* – We visit the court every working day.’ Scroll to the very small print at the bottom to [...]

Pre-Nups

Interesting post from Marilyn Stowe about Pre-Nups. She has beaten me to Christopher Sharp QC’s recent article in the FLJ, which I will now go and read…

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Further to my previous post, I’ve now belatedly read Wednesday’s G2 which contains a further article about the divorce in a time of economic decline. The author of that article refers anecdotally to the fact some family law firms have ‘never been busier’, but does not quote any statistics showing a recent rise in divorce [...]

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 [...]

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