In a recent article, published by Lawyer Monthly, Valemus Law’s Julia Cluley, looks closely at the rights and responsibilities someone has if they have been left to bring up their partner’s child after the relationship has ended. Within her article Julia discusses how someone would go about getting parental responsibility for a child that isn’t [...]
In her recent article for Solicitors Journal, Joanna Abrahams looks closely at the laws around annulment, which is also known as nullity. An annulment can be applied for one of two grounds: that the marriage was never legally valid or that it was valid but was voidable. One of the reasons a marriage might be voidable [...]
The court service has disclosed that the number of people filing for divorce has increased from 6,764 in April 2021 to 12,978 in April 2022, which most are attributing to the coming into force of “no-fault divorce” laws However, it might not be that simple, covid has also without doubt impacted on relationships, whilst [...]
With the Queen celebrating the Platinum Jubilee, Manisha Hurchurn wrote about how family law has been transformed since the 2002 Golden Jubilee. The article by Manisha, who is a family and children law specialist at Valemus Law, was published by Today’s Family Lawyer. In her piece, Manisha explains the legal changes regarding parental responsibility brought [...]
It goes without saying that the introduction of no-fault divorce on the 6th April 2022 represented one of the greatest shifts on the part of the government in the 21st Century, to not only keep abreast of societal views as to the family unit and what that embodies, but to transform the practice and application of Family [...]
In a recent article, Valemus Law Family Partner Joanna Abrahams looks closely at the options (or lack thereof) available to those in the UK who turn to surrogacy as a route to having a baby. Whilst, at first blush, surrogacy seems to be an option for childless couples, the reality is that here in the UK [...]
Recent news that ex-Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner admitted to faking papers to obtain two divorces in 2000 and 2014 respectively, prompted Valemus Law Family Partner Joanna Abrahams to write an article looking closely at the rise of e-signature and no-fault divorce in the prevention of fraudulent divorce. Within her article Joanna looks closely at the introduction [...]
