EEA permanent residence card. On 29 March 2017, British Prime Minister, Theresa May triggered Article 50, officially notifying the European Council of the UK’s intent to leave the European Union. Since the EU referendum in June 2016, many Europeans living in the UK feel their futures are suddenly uncertain. Theresa May has made ambiguous promises […]
An Interview With Our Family Solicitor, Farzana Naz We discuss today Resolution family law. Is it possible to have a good divorce? We think so. Harsh, needlessly aggressive divorce negotiations make for good TV drama, but this is not a constructive strategy for real life couples. Especially when children are involved. Ending a marriage does […]
There are countries which are not members of The Hague Convention, some parents face the difficult fight to have children returned. In 2010, Sean Felton made headlines across the world when he launched a daring and clever plot to rescue his three-year-old son, who had been taken to Thailand without his consent, by his ex-wife, […]
A judge has ordered an ex-premier league footballer to pay £200,000 per year in maintenance to his former wife. At the outset, this may seem entirely reasonable. He is a high-earning football star, she a beautician. However, here is the rub. They were only married for 19 months. And in that short time they spent […]
Twitter is in a flap over the so-called homewrecker penguin video. It shows a male penguin coming home to find he is not only being cuckolded by his wife, but despite engaging in a bloody battle that dispels any warm and fuzzy feelings you may have felt towards penguins after viewing Happy Feet – his […]
It is the ultimate betrayal. Someone you once loved falsely accuses you of physically, sexually or mentally abusing your child. I cannot even begin to convey the horror and terror of clients who have come to me having been subjected to this ordeal. What I can say though is that it often destroys the victim’s […]
How Choosing the Country you Divorce in Can Affect the Financial Settlement The divorce of Christina Estrada and Saudi businessman Sheikh Walid Juffali will be forever remembered for the amount of money Ms Estrada stated that she needed to maintain her lifestyle. Under cross-examination, the former supermodel stated that she required: £40,000 a year for […]
Getting a divorce is not an easy decision to make: It can take months or even years to finally decide to end your marriage. Having agonised over the actual decision itself, the idea of having to wait over a year to be officially ‘free’ of your partner may seem excessive or even abhorrent. . In […]