20/09/2017 - Divorce and separation
Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, uncountably worse. Sinead O’Connor I wrote here back in April about a Canadian father who took his own life, apparently pushed to that desperate act by his treatment at the hands of the Canadian (or British Columbian) family justice system. I have now had a…
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…
27/03/2019 - Children
One of the very worst things a parent can do is to try to prevent the other parent from having a relationship with their child by falsely manufacturing allegations against that parent. Sadly, this is a scenario that happens all too frequently, as any family lawyer will testify. The recent case Re ABCDEF (Fact Finding:…
15/02/2018 - Family Law
“This afternoon, a wholly deserving and tearful father has asked the court for permission to withdraw his application to enable him to spend time with his son. It is poignant that that application comes before me just six days before Christmas.” So begins the short judgment of His Honour Judge Bellamy in the case Re…
30/08/2016 - Family
A three year-old girl should not be sent back to New York to live with her mother, the High Court has ruled. The toddler was born in March 2013, following a brief but “intense” affair when her French father visited New York on a business trip. The parents had first met some years previously when…
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…
22/02/2018 - Family Law
“The right decision is the wrong decision if it’s made too late.” — Lee Iacocca Last Thursday I wrote here of a case in which the family justice system failed to ensure that a father had contact with his child, with the result that the father gave up and withdrew his contact application. I am…
16/12/2014 - Children
A basic principle of family law is that it is almost always in the interests of a child to have contact with the parent with whom the child is not living. This has been made clear by the courts on many occasions: a prominent recent example being the Court of Appeal’s decision in Re W…
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