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Family Flyer 62
January 17, 2017
Pre-Nuptials – Quality, Clarity, Practice and Cost
It is suggested that there should be some concern over the direction pre-nuptial work in practice is taking, the widely differing quality of drafting experience and the ever rising costs being faced by the client in the process.
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Family Flyer 61
January 17, 2017
As family lawyers we are all familiar with the anxieties of clients over mounting costs in a divorce financial claim. The days when a client expected to write a blank cheque for the privilege of their legal advisor to represent them have long gone – and frankly – good riddance.
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Family Flyer 60
January 17, 2017
A summary of ‘Guidance on Financial Needs on Divorce’ (June 2016) published by the Family Justice Council Financial Needs Working Group.
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Family Flyer 59
January 17, 2017
The Debate on Evidential Burden in Judgment Summons Hearings
In Flyer 55 Judgment Summons – An Inadequate Remedy and a Defaulter’s Charter – analysis of Prest v Prest [2015] EWCA 714. I set out the analusis of the Court of Appeal’s decision (McFarlane LJ) in the case of Prest v Prest [2016] 1 FLR 773 dealing with in particular, the required procedure to be followed upon a judgment summons committal hearing.
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Family Flyer 58
January 17, 2017
An analysis if W V H (No 2)(Contempt, contents of application notice) [2015] EWHC 2436 (Fam)
Whilst the committal hearing is also reported, it is the report, as above, dealing with Parker J’s consideration of the procedural requirements of committal applications and the powers of the court to remedy defects, which is of the most interest to practitioners.
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