News & Articles
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Divorce Day: New Year, New Beginnings?
The media have coined the term “Divorce Day”. This is the first Monday in January and this year falls on Monday 6 January 2025. “Divorce Day” is considered to be the…
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Family assets and when to intervene in Divorce Financial Proceedings
When couples divorce, disputes will often arise around the current ownership of assets and which of the parties should retain them, but what happens when extended family members stake a claim…
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How does the Court decide who gets what in English Divorce Financial Settlement cases
In all divorces, but especially in high-net-worth (HNW) divorces, the financial settlement is one of the most contested issues. The greater the income and assets, the higher the stakes. Understanding how…
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How To Secure Financial Support and Child Maintenance From a High Earner
If you are an unmarried parent seeking child maintenance from the non-resident parent, your first recourse is likely to be the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). However, the CMS’s jurisdiction is limited…
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Judge Rejects Idea That Childless Spouses Are Less Committed
One of the factors set out under section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 that the Court must consider when deciding on financial settlement matters is the duration of the…
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Unsigned Post-Nuptial Agreement Considered But Not Determinative
In the landmark case of Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, the Supreme Court stated that:“The Court should give effect to a nuptial agreement that is freely entered into by each party…
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Can I Change A Divorce-Related Financial Order?
Most of the high-net-worth (HNW) clients advised and represented by us are relieved when the Court finally grants a divorce-related Financial Order and they can finally put the legal aspects of…
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Enforcing An Award In International HNW Divorce Cases
Akhmedova v Akhmedov & Ors. [2021] EWHC 545 When a judgement opens with the following line from Leo Tolstoy’s novel ‘Anna Karenina’: “All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy…
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What are the advantages of Mediation in a High Net Worth Divorce?
It is often assumed that mediation is too ‘soft’ an approach for working out a financial settlement in high-net- worth (HNW) divorce and is primarily a mechanism for establishing arrangements for…
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How to divorce a Narcissist
There is a saying that all psychopaths are narcissists but not all narcissists are psychopaths. For anyone who has been in a relationship with a narcissist and is attempting to divorce…
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Silver Splitters – Divorce after 60
The average age for getting divorced in England and Wales is 46.9 years for men and 44.5 years for women, and on average, those that do divorce do so after 12.5…