Family Law Week publishes an interesting article this week on the recent case of Grubb v Grubb which concerns an appeal against the granting of an occupation order ousting a husband from the matrimonial home. The article appears here and the transcript here. I am going to take a slightly different slant on that case [...]
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Occupation Orders
Posted in stuff, tagged domestic violence, abuse, family proceedings, occupation order, non molestation order on November 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
‘Don’t you lot EVER think about the kids?’
Posted in stuff, tagged adoption, care, children, family proceedings, guardian on October 9, 2009 | 14 Comments »
No, you are absolutely right. We have spent years acquiring expertise, passed up the opportunity to earn three times as much money in any other area of law you care to choose, regularly work into the night reading graphic details about head injuries and abuse and neglect, and spend 50% of our time telling our [...]
Trustee in Bankruptcy has 3 Year Window
Posted in stuff, tagged ancillary relief, bankruptcy, family law, family proceedings, financial on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have not had time to read the full report of this case reported last week in The Times: Lewis and Another v Metropolitan Property Realisations Ltd (Court of Appeal, July 15 2009), but it is certainly going to be worth a look both for families concerned about losing their home and ex-(or soon to [...]
Writing About Family Proceedings – A Blogger’s Guide
Posted in stuff, tagged disclosure, family justice system, family proceedings, miscarriage of justice, openness, publicity, secrecy on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking about telling the world about the injustice you have suffered at the hands of the family court system? Understandably many parents who have been through family court proceedings want to blog or write about their experience of trying to get contact with their son or daughter, or about how the state wrongly took their children from [...]
Seen and Heard
Posted in stuff, tagged children, family proceedings, participation of children on May 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just read an interesting article by District Judge Paul Carr who sits at Watford County Court on ‘The Voice of the Child’ published in [2009] Fam Law 290 (1 Apr 09) in which he sets out his views about Judges seeing children involved in proceedings and how that should be handled. I’ve posted on the [...]
Divorce in Haste Repent at Leisure
Posted in stuff, tagged divorce, family courts, family proceedings, technology on May 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
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