Articles by ‘Simon Bassett’

Pakistani couple Muhammad Hanif and Huma Aslam, who had student visas to be in the UK, worked with Czech couple Michal Mankos and Katerina Gerychova in order to swap partners and enter sham marriages.

A mum who went missing for 17 days with her three-year-old son following a custody battle has been reprimanded by a judge as being “utterly irresponsible”.

Police and social workers should make allowances for “cultural context” while investigating the cases of alleged physical abuse by parents.

A greater proportion of pensioners are choosing to part ways according to new research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

A lecturer at the centre of what is thought to be Britain’s first case of paternity fraud involving IVF has called for the introduction of routine DNA testing in divorce.

A high court judge has bemoaned the £1m in legal bills run up by a former beauty queen and her estranged millionaire husband as they fought over how to divide their assets.

A new study appears to disprove the traditional assumption that the UK’s family courts are biased against men.

A foreign criminal convicted of child cruelty and drink-driving with his four-year-old daughter in the car has overturned a Home Office bid to deport him – because of his “right to family life”.

Two divorced women, both mothers-of-three, have joined forces to bring their former husbands to task, claiming they deliberately hid their true wealth.

The Government has signalled it could look to close a legal loophole which has allowed divorcees to leave their former partner without a share of their pension.

A Judge presiding over a multi-million pound divorce case in London has dismissed a wife’s plea to be awarded a baby grand piano.

Two grandparents have told of their anguish after their bid to stop their granddaughters being taken to Australia by their mother failed. They lost a highly emotional court case which has cost them £30,000.