No-Fault Divorce came about in the UK after years of campaigning for a system where neither party would have to be “blamed” for the breakdown of the marriage, making the process less hostile and allowing the couples to follow a more conciliatory and reflective approach. With this change, the need to evidence the irretrievable... Read More
You may already know that in the “Bella vita” country if your marriage breaks down you have no choice but to face a judicial separation before you can apply for a divorce. Until 2015, you had to wait three years before you could proceed to a divorce and, only in 2015, this window was reduced to 6 months (if separation was made by... Read More
A 13-year study has found that divorce can not only break one’s heart, but could also increase the risk of dying from a heart attack. Researchers at Aston Medical School in Birmingham studied almost 1 million patients and found that divorced patients who suffered a cardiac arrest were 16% less likely to survive than their married... Read More
A new study has shown that proneness to divorce may not be governed, as we currently think, by nurture, but by nature. Through looking at adopted children, researchers of Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden have found that divorce could be encrypted in your genes. Many studies have proved that children of divorced... Read More
Whether in England, the United States, or elsewhere in Western Europe, divorces involving the Russians tend to provide plenty of fodder for the world’s media. So why is it that divorce proceedings involving two Russian nationals are so frequently issued elsewhere? The Russian Court has jurisdiction in divorce cases where either party... Read More
During a divorce process, each spouse is required to complete full financial disclosure using a standard form, the Form E. One of the standard requirements of the Form E is to provide details of all bank accounts, and one year’s worth of statements for each account. Bank account statements can be a treasure trove of information. When I am... Read More
It was a whirlwind six years for Jodie and Michael Fox. In 2006, the long-time university friends married. Three years later, alongside their co-founder and friend Mike Knapp, they launched Shoes of Prey -Jodie’s brainchild, an e-commerce website where women could design their own shoes. Fast-forward to 2012, and business was booming, but... Read More
Divorce lawyers are no stranger to the idea of broken vows, given that they deal with them every day, even though for married couples they can often spell disaster. But it seems that wives are more prone to being on the receiving end of one broken vow in particular: ‘in sickness and in health’. When it comes to the relationship... Read More
Divorce, for many people, is seldom taken into consideration during the first throes of marital bliss. It is, nonetheless, a phenomenon that many will endure - roughly a third of all UK marriages end in divorce. While unfortunate, this does not mean that divorce needs to be a battle to end to a once well-intentioned partnership.... Read More
Humans may well be complex individuals, but one thing that us warm-blooded beings share is our evolutionary urge to form bonds. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that so many of us crave and seek out the partnership and stability that marriage affords. And, if we’re really lucky, we form these marital bonds out of friendship and love.... Read More