Cohabiting couples are the fastest growing family type in the UK with more than 3.3 million cohabiting families, more than twice the amount there were... Read more »
Family lawyers have to explain every day to unmarried cohabitants that they don’t have the same rights as married people if their relationship... Read more »
One of the biggest difficulties divorcing couples face is the uncertainty of outcome on their financial claims. The English courts retain a very wide... Read more »
Bishop & Sewell is pleased to learn that the firm has been recognised for its expertise in this year's Legal 500 2019 rankings an independent... Read more »
The tongue in cheek heading of this piece was suggested to me as a topic about the legal differences between unmarried cohabitation and marriage (and... Read more »
On 8 September 2018 news of a government consultation paper to reform divorce law in England and Wales was leaked.
To obtain a divorce a marriage... Read more »
On 18 July 2018 the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the case of Mills v Mills. Very few Family law financial cases get to the Supreme Court and... Read more »
There are a multitude of articles from family lawyers extolling the virtues of the various types of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): mediation,... Read more »
The majority of people who get divorced issue a petition (Owens v Owens) based on adultery or 'unreasonable behaviour' because the alternative is to... Read more »
The first weeks of January are fabled to be the busiest time of the year for family lawyers with new enquiries flooding in. The reality is that... Read more »