Family and Matrimonial

The Family Court has ruled on an application for financial remedies in a case which involved a range of assets and was characterised by animosity and dispute. The husband...

The Family Division of the High Court has granted a couple’s application for a parental order in respect of a boy who was born to a surrogate mother in California....

The Family Division of the High Court has refused a mother’s application for an order that her three children should be returned from England to Lithuania. The mother and...

In a divorce case involving a couple with assets of more than £260 million, the Family Court has ruled that the husband should buy out the wife’s shares in three...

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recently ruled on a divorced couple’s cross-applications for enforcement and variation of a periodical payments order originally made in 2012.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...