Family and Matrimonial

The Family Court recently ruled on a divorced couple’s cross-applications for enforcement and variation of a periodical payments order originally made in 2012. The husband had been ordered to...

The Family Court has granted a husband’s application for a divorce he obtained in India to be recognised by the English courts. The husband and wife were both Indian...

In a case in which a man was named as a girl’s father on her birth certificate but was subsequently discovered not to be her biological father, the High Court...

The courts are entitled to draw reasonable adverse inferences against a party who fails to engage in divorce proceedings. How this is approached in practice was illustrated by a recent...

Under Section 42(7) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, an adoption order may not be made unless the court is satisfied that sufficient opportunities to see the child with...

The High Court recently ruled on an application by the Lord Chancellor for declarations that the marriages of 79 couples no longer subsisted on the date of their final divorce...

The High Court has granted a man’s application for a declaration that it was lawful for him to use an embryo created using his sperm and his late wife’s eggs...

The Family Division of the High Court recently refused an application for a 13-year-old girl’s summary return to the USA, in a decision in which the girl’s own objections to...

When couples are divorcing, mediation is strongly recommended in order to reduce the time and expense involved in court proceedings. This was amply illustrated in a recent case in which...

When a child is born via a surrogacy arrangement, the legal parents are the surrogate mother and, if they have consented to the arrangement, her spouse or civil partner. The...