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Wife 'trapped' in loveless marriage take battle for divorce to Supreme Court

21st May 2018

A woman who was refused a decree nisi by the Court of Appeal is taking her battle for a divorce to the Supreme Court. Tini Owens, who has been married to multimillionaire mushroom farmer, Hugh Owens, for 39 years, filed for divorce in May 2015. Her husband has defended the petition ever since, attesting that their marriage has not... Read More

No Contest: a new report recommends no fault divorce

17th May 2018

A new report by the Nuffield Foundation has recommended that the law be reformed to allow no fault divorce. The recent report entitled No Contest: Defended Divorce in England and Wales is a companion to the October 2017 Finding Fault report, which found that 'the law is incentivising people to exaggerate claims of 'behaviour' or... Read More

Sir James Munby gives guidance warning against accidental bigamy

2nd May 2018

Family Division President Sir James Munby has recently had to publish interim guidance after "a number of cases have been brought to [his] attention where decrees nisi and absolute have been granted" in violation of the Matrimonial Causes Act (MCA) 1973. Munby described two situations where divorce decrees were being granted in... Read More

Digitising divorce applications could save thousands of hours of court time

2nd May 2018

Allowing couples to apply for a divorce online could save countless hours of court time. Adam Lennon, head of family modernisation and improvement at Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), recently spoke about HMCTS's digitisation of divorce to the Westminster Legal Policy Forum. He predicted the modernisation move... Read More

Ex Fox News host attempts to sue ex wife's divorce lawyer

26th April 2018

A judge has blocked ex- Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's attempt to quash subpoenas served to his divorce lawyer and his personal accountant. This is only the latest development in O'Reilly's legal battle against his ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy. In 2016, 5 years after their 2011 divorce, O'Reilly filed a $10 million lawsuit... Read More

The disappearing £340,000 in the case of S v S

25th April 2018

A divorce may involve a couple who are in dispute not about who should get what, but where the assets are in the first place. In this case, the husband wished to appeal a decision that it was he, rather than the wife, who had retained a disappeared sum of £340,000 in cash. The couple had been married for twelve years and had two children,... Read More

A man who forged his sick wife's signature on divorce papers has been jailed

23rd April 2018

Welshman Nicky Jones, 44, was found guilty of committing the fraud and jailed for eight months. He forged his wife's signature on divorce papers while she was in hospital, battling stage 3 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in her groin, back and stomach. Diagnosed in 2015, his wife Lucy was initially told she had three months to live. She had... Read More

High earners’ income post-divorce will be protected: how a wife’s bid for higher maintenance payments in the Court of Appeal has backfired

19th April 2018

A woman applying for higher maintenance payments from her ex-husband has found her request backfiring upon her, with a court instead ordering that the payments should stop earlier than planned. In a significant Court of Appeal case last week, it was decided that where a spouse's future needs could be met using part of their financial award... Read More

Denmark: a study in easy divorces

19th April 2018

Denmark turns out to have an astonishingly high divorce rate, with a speedy and cheap divorce process to match. Statistics Denmark revealed that 42.7% of all Danish marriages end in divorce, with single parenting and all the logistical issues that come with it becoming normalised. This percentage puts Denmark in fourth position for divorce rates... Read More

EA v NA and the Presumption of Death Act

7th April 2018

In a recent, "very sad" High Court case Mr Justice Keehan granted a declaration of presumed death following a claim made by the wife of an Iraqi national who deserted her once she had helped secure him a British passport. The couple had met and married in Boston, Lincolnshire in 2005. The husband partly lived with his wife there,... Read More

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