Articles in ‘Family’ Category

In this third and final instalment on my observations of Series 3 of the hit divorce drama, The Split, I take a look, at what the show got right – and maybe not quite!…

Zara Jordan, a solicitor in our London Family Team considers the recent judgement in the case of WC v HC. Getting divorced is widely recognised to be one of life’s most stressful events.  The…

“I just want to go home with the kids” After a relationship breakdown, for foreign nationals with children settled in England, there may be a natural desire to return to the support of their…

The Government has announced that it intends to give divorcing couples and those dissolving a civil partnership a capital gains tax (CGT) lifeline, allowing them to transfer assets without incurring an immediate CGT liability…

In her second article on the legal questions prompted by the recent TV series THE SPLIT Jayne Martins, a Partner in our family team, examines the obligations on a lawyer when she knows more…

About Dion Dion graduated from the University of West England with a Law with Honors degree in 2019. She went on to complete her legal studies at UWE and successfully completed the Legal Practice…

In the first of a new series, Jayne Martins, Partner in our Family team, examines the legal plausibility of the successful BBC 1 TV Series THE SPLIT (and if you have not seen it,…