Written by Farzana Naz, Director / Head of Family · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 3 September 2026 Prenuptial agreements are legal contracts entered into before marriage that set out how a couple’s assets, including businesses, property, savings and inheritance, should be divided if the marriage later ends in divorce. While prenuptial agreements are not […]
Written by Farzana Naz, Director / Head of Family · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 3 September 2026 Trusts and divorce questions arise whenever one spouse is a beneficiary of, or has set up, a trust that holds family wealth, and the central question for the court is not who technically owns the assets in […]
Written by Farzana Naz, Director / Head of Family · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 3 September 2026 Property portfolio divorce cases involve valuing every property individually, understanding the borrowing, tax and income attached to each one, and then deciding whether to sell, transfer, or offset the portfolio against other assets in the settlement. For […]
Written by Farzana Naz, Director / Head of Family · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 3 September 2026 Business valuation divorce work is the process of establishing what a company, or a spouse’s shareholding in it, is genuinely worth for the purposes of a financial settlement, usually carried out by an independent forensic accountant appointed […]
Written by Farzana Naz, Director / Head of Family · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 3 September 2026 Financial remedies in high net worth divorce cases use the legal orders an English court can make to divide a couple’s money, property, pensions and other assets following divorce, and typically draw on a wider toolkit than […]
Written by Amani Mahmoud, Foreign Qualified Associate Solicitor · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 1 September 2026 Most Civil Disputes Settle Before Trial If you have watched A Few Good Men, Suits or Legally Blonde, you might assume that every legal dispute ends with a dramatic courtroom showdown. However, the reality is very different. If you […]
Written by Maxim Sealey, Associate Solicitor · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 24 August 2026 Setting rent to be payable monthly, rather than quarterly or at another longer interval, gives landlords a meaningfully faster route to eviction under section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 for rent arrears. This is because the mandatory ground for […]
Written by Farzana Naz, Director / Head of Family · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 24 August 2026 When a relationship breaks down, the wellbeing of any children must remain at the centre of every decision both parents make. In England and Wales, the law requires courts to treat the welfare of the child as […]
Written by Tasawar Ulhaq, Director · SRA-regulated · Last reviewed 24 August 2026 Buying or selling a DFSA- or FSRA-regulated financial business in the UAE involves a layer of process that a standard corporate acquisition does not: change-in-control approval from the relevant regulator, deep regulatory due diligence into the target’s historic compliance record, and […]
