Leading drug, alcohol and DNA testing laboratory, AlphaBiolabs, has made a £500 donation to Carers Trust Solihull as part of ...

The Work and Pensions Committee Child Maintenance Service (CMS) inquiry was published today, following its launch in July 2016. The resulting report concluded that the ideal outcome for separated ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the Thatcher Government fixed its sights on child maintenance. In January 1990, in what was to be her last year in office, Mrs Thatcher (as she then was) ...

BASW England is pleased to announce the launch of new guidance for child and family social workers supporting victim-survivors of domestic abuse. The guidance is aimed at social workers within the ...

Following the case of Hamilton v Hamilton [2013] EWCA Civ 13, [2013] 1 FLR (forthcoming), this article explores the developments in the law relating to, on the one hand, lump sums and, on the other, ...

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 ...

This article is based on an address to Jordans Annual Family Law Conference, London, October 2014. It is a great honour to be addressing you today, an honour that is enhanced when I reflect that I ...

This article looks at three recent and important decisions under the Inheritance etc. Act 1975; namely, Ilott v Mitson, Iqbal v Ahmed (both Court of Appeal 2011) and Lilleyman v Lilleyman (Briggs J, ...

This article looks at the outcome of the costs hearing in the long running case of AB v CD [2016] EWHC 2482. The general rule in relation to costs in family financial remedy proceedings is ‘no order’ ...

Anna Yarde, Barrister, Harcourt Chambers: The landscape of private law children disputes is changing rapidly. Changes in legal aid have resulted in a significant increase in the number of litigants in ...

Family Justice Reformed (second edition: June 2017) contains detailed commentary on the Single Family Court and the Children and Families Act 2014, Pts 1 and 2 (which deal with family justice), ...

Family procedural law is not as clear as it might be over when ‘a person who is not a party to the proceedings’ (a non-party) can be compelled to produce documents and other information into family ...