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The costs-consequences pendulum shifts again
Posted: 02/08/2019
Rebecca Dziobon and Gemma Reading of the firm’s family department recentIy submitted a legal update to New Law Journal highlighting the recent changes to the costs rules in financial remedy proceedings......>>
International family law: is WhatsApp the future for serving court papers?
Posted: 11/07/2019
The Daily Telegraph recently reported that Mandy Gray, a significantly wealthy divorcee, had obtained an order to serve court papers via WhatsApp on her former partner living in New Zealand......>>
Is time up for Ireland’s restrictive divorce laws?
Posted: 22/05/2019
With all the noise surrounding the EU elections tomorrow, one political campaign close to home has gone largely unnoticed: on Friday 24 May, Irish voters will go the polls again to vote on divorce law reform......>>
Securing divorce jurisdiction: the German/Anglo case of Pierburg
Posted: 29/04/2019
The well-publicised case Pierburg v Pierburg, [2019] EWFC 24 concerned a dispute about whether a divorce should proceed in England or Germany. The issue before the court was whether the English court had jurisdiction to deal with the wife’s English divorce petition......>>
Is three a crowd? A look at the courts’ approach to judicious encouragement following Daga v Bangur
Posted: 08/04/2019
The ability of the Family Court to determine that assets owned or controlled by third parties, such as discretionary trusts or capital owned by a parent, are available to meet the needs of a separating spouse by virtue of s25(2)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 can cause difficulties to practitioners and clients alike......>>

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