Family and Matrimonial

A marriage is generally recognised in English law if it is valid under the law of the country in which it takes place, a legal principle known as lex loci...

In certain circumstances, the courts are able to grant permission for continued storage of gametes or embryos where the strict legislative requirements for consent to such storage have not been...

The Family Court has ruled in financial remedy proceedings that a significant part of the value of a husband’s pensions had accrued during the marriage, but rejected the argument that...

The High Court has ruled that two girls, aged 10 and six, whose mother brought them to the UK without their father’s consent should return to Zimbabwe. The girls...

The Family Court has ruled in financial remedy proceedings that a departure from an equal division of assets was appropriate in view of the fact that riskier and less liquid...

In a recent ruling on a wife’s application for a financial remedy order, the Family Court accepted that her caring responsibilities for the couple’s son justified a departure from the...

The courts are alert to the risk of divorcing couples being less than honest about their assets and liabilities in financial remedy proceedings. Recently, the Family Court rejected a husband’s...

The Family Court recently granted a local authority permission to withdraw an application for a care order in respect of a two-year-old girl, after the local authority concluded that, in...

The Family Court has rejected a husband’s application to set aside a financial remedy order made in his absence after he ceased to participate in the final hearing. The...

The High Court has refused a mother’s application for her five-year-old daughter’s return to Dubai, instead granting an application by the girl’s father for her to remain in England. ...