Hiding Assets During Divorce: How to Tackle Hidden Assets
Both spouses must give full and frank disclosure of their finances in a divorce. Hiding assets is a serious breach of that duty. If your spouse is concealing money or property, the court has real [...]
What is a Form E Financial Statement in Divorce?
In short: A Form E is the financial statement each person completes to disclose their full financial position during a divorce, including property, bank accounts, pensions, income and debts. It is a disclosure document, not [...]
Practice Direction 27A: New Court Bundle Rules Explained
Court bundles have always been essential in family proceedings. Get them wrong, and you risk delays, wasted costs, and an undesirable outcome, all because the judge cannot find the documents they need. The court has [...]
Domestic Abuse and Child Arrangements: Why Judges Must Now Consider the Impact on Children Who Witnessed It
If you've lived through domestic abuse and are now facing a child arrangements dispute, you may have felt that the family court didn't fully grasp the damage done not just to you, but to your [...]
What is Parental Alienation?
Few situations in family law are as painful as watching your relationship with your child slip away, not because of anything you have done, but because of what someone else is doing. Parental alienation is [...]
What Is Coercive Abuse?
Coercive abuse is one of the most misunderstood forms of harm a person can experience in a relationship. There are no visible bruises. There may be no single dramatic incident. Yet the damage it causes [...]