Redundancy and divorce can both be challenging. If your ex-spouse has been made redundant, you may be concerned how this may impact on the financial arrangements made during your divorce. Redundancy can affect things such as spousal maintenance and child…
Cases involving farms and hereditary land represent one of the most challenging areas for the courts to deal with when considering how to distribute assets upon divorce. These assets tend to all carry a high capital value but often generate…
The ending of a civil partnership or civil partnership dissolution can be as difficult an ordeal as a divorce. Although marriages and civil partnerships are different, the breakdown of these relationships can both be disheartening and confusing to navigate. Read…
A closer look at spousal maintenance & Joint Lives Maintenance Orders and how they are used within divorce financial settlements
If you have been to see a family lawyer, you have probably heard of a consent order , and encouraged to enter into one upon divorce.
The last few months have proved testing to us all in many different ways. From a relationship point of view, some couples may find they feel stronger in pulling together through uncertain times. Others may feel that lockdown and the…
Covid-19 (coronavirus) has caused not only a devastating health crisis, but also an economic one. Even though lockdown restrictions are being lifted and employees are returning to work, it is seemingly accepted, nevertheless, amongst economists, financial experts and even the…
The Covid-19 pandemic has a wide-ranging impact on so many aspects of our daily lives and the family justice system has not been immune to being impacted. The Court has sought to make appropriate changes to its policies and processes…
Coronavirus (Covid-19) does not in itself impact the means of dividing assets in a divorce. The assets will, as usual, need to be attributed values, which are agreed by both spouses or accepted by a Court, and those assets then…
In this blog post I take a look at what a Clean Break Order is and answer some of the most commonly asked questions about them.