17/06/2022 - Family | Relationships and wellness | Stowe guests
Father’s Day without the kids can be challenging when you’re separated or going through a divorce. Here, divorce coach Claire Macklin shares tips and advice for navigating Father’s Day this year. Father’s Day without the kids Perhaps you don’t see your children as much as you would like at the best of times, or maybe…
26/10/2012 - Children | Divorce and separation | Family Law
In a Court of Appeal hearing earlier this week, a Spanish father lost an appeal against an judgment granting his former partner permission to take their child back to Spain. It is a thought-provoking case, and one which I suspect will be long quoted in future relocation proceedings. The case concerned a Spanish couple with…
19/01/2017 - Family
It is a basic and universal rule that all parties should be informed of court proceedings taken against them, and that they should also be given the right to be heard in those proceedings. However, what happens if the respondent to an application is not at their last known address? This was the question in…
08/10/2013 - Cohabitation | Family | Family Law
The parents involved in an acrimonious residence dispute have been criticised by a High Court judge for failing to put their son’s interests above their own. In WX v YZ, a Polish couple met in the US and moved to England, where their son, now four, was born. He ran the family business while she…
22/08/2018 - Children | Divorce and separation
If a parent breaches an order prohibiting them from removing their child from this country, then one might think that it is obvious what the court should do: order that that parent return the child to this country. The case AW v KJ, however, is a clear demonstration that there is something more important than…
08/09/2014 - Children
What does a court do when all else seems to have failed to resolve a long-running and acrimonious dispute over a father’s contact with his children – one in which the mother has shown implacable hostility not just to contact, but also to the conclusions of the court? Well, one thing that the court can…
16/07/2014 - Family Law
As I have said here before, international child relocation cases are amongst the most difficult for a family lawyer to deal with, having the possibility of separating children from one of their parents on what is (or certainly may seem) a permanent basis. This was the scenario in Payne v Payne (also known as P…
18/04/2018 - Family Law
At the risk of turning this into my ‘European week’, I wanted to write about another European Court of Human rights (ECHR) case involving Russia, and also concerning the issue of a child’s residence. The outcome of this case, however, was quite different, and it acts as a counterpoint to the case I wrote about yesterday….
06/06/2008 - Stowe Family Law
The law needs changing – the Government must do more than tinker at the edges Although I believe that the increased number of unmarried couples has created problems that are not covered with existing legislation, I was startled to learn that the Government has unveiled proposals to make unmarried mothers declare their children’s fathers on…
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