Finance
Home is where the heart is, but what happens to the most valuable asset most couples own when the marriage...
When we first meet with clients, we commonly get asked what they are entitled to on divorce. Depending on the...
Arbitration and mediation are, in effect, the polar opposites of each other in the dispute resolution process. Mediation is where...
What is a forensic accountant’s role in divorce proceedings? A forensic accountant has a number of functions. If they are...
It is a popular misconception that living together gives you the same legal rights against your partner on separation that...
Lehna Gardner reviews cases where a special contribution argument has been successful, and the outcome in Work v Grey It...
It has recently been reported that parents are now funding more than a quarter of house purchases as their children...
It will often be the case that a family who has experienced the suspicious death, injury or other abuse of...
One of the recent trends from the senior Courts in this jurisdiction has been to curtail and/or remove the (arguably somewhat legally unorthodox) practices that have developed over time in family law in order to deal with a variety of different problems which regularly occur in family proceedings - including that of financial disclosure. In particular, the cases of Imerman and Prest, made it plain that the family courts need to play by the ‘same rules’ as their civil counterparts.
