Finance & Divorce Update – Family Law Week

‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor of Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the financial remedies and divorce news and cases from January 2015.’

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Family Law Week, 19th February 2015

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Schedule 1 to The Children Act 1989: Not Just for Wags – Family Law Week

‘Anita Mehta, barrister of Crown Office Row, Brighton, argues that Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 applications should not be regarded as the domain of footballers’ girlfriends or the uber-wealthy but as a powerful tool for meeting children’s needs in a wide variety of cases.’

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Family Law Week, 6th February 2015

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Finance & Divorce Update – Family Law Week

‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor of Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published by Family Law Week during September.’

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Family Law Week, 5th October 2014

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Child Support – What Is Going On? – Family Law Week

Posted March 13th, 2014 in child support, fees, government departments, news by tracey

‘Jody Atkinson TEP, barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol, considers the ongoing changes to the Child Support Act system.’

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Family Law Week, 12th March 2014

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Geraldine Morris looks at the changes ahead for family law & predicts some new developments – New Law Journal

‘Lawyers may not always think of themselves as business people; family lawyers in particular are often very client focused, looking to achieve the best outcome for parties who are going through what will often be one of the worst periods of their lives. It can be hard, when weighed down with a busy caseload, to peak above the parapet and take time to reflect on how family law is changing. All businesses change over time, some faster than others. Change within the family law justice system has accelerated at an incredible pace in the last few years and 2014 will be no exception.’

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New Law Journal, 22nd January 2014

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Changes to Child Maintenance – Family Law Week

Posted September 4th, 2013 in child support, financial provision, news, parental responsibility by sally

“Anna Heenan, Solicitor at Gregg Latchams LLP explains the latest changes to the child support regime.”

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Family Law Week, 3rd September 2013

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Sperm donor ordered to pay maintenance for child after judge rules he is the father – The Independent

“A professional man registered as a sperm donor on a website and advertised his willingness to participate in a ‘breeding party, ie a male-dominated orgy designed to get a woman pregnant’, a High Court judge said today.”

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The Independent, 26th Juyl 2013

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Child Support: Here Comes the New Gross Income Scheme – Family Law week

Posted April 29th, 2013 in child support, news, regulations, remuneration, taxation by tracey

“Jody Atkinson TEP, barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol considers the new Child Support Gross Income Scheme.”

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Family Law Week, 26th April 2013

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Individuals ‘have no right’ to stop name being used online – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 27th, 2013 in child support, data protection, freedom of expression, internet, news by tracey

“Ordinary people have no right to stop their names being used in web addresses
because they are not famous enough, according to regulators.”

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Daily Telegraph, 27th March 2013

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Child Maintenance Assessments: Self-employed non-resident parents beware! – Family Law Week

Posted January 16th, 2013 in child support, news, self-employment by sally

“Byron James, barrister, 14 Gray’s Inn Square, considers the issue of a child support officer’s unfettered discretion in child maintenance assessments of self-employed non-resident parents.”

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Family Law Week, 14th January 2013

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Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission v Gibbons; Same v Karoonian – WLR Daily

Posted November 1st, 2012 in appeals, child support, detention, enforcement, law reports by sally

Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission v Gibbons; Same v Karoonian [2012] EWCA Civ 1379; [2012] WLR (D) 300

“Where an application was made pursuant to section 39A(1) of the Child Support Act 1991 for the committal of a person to a term of imprisonment for wilful refusal or culpable neglect in not having complied with orders to pay child support maintenance, a strict construction was to be placed on the word ‘sought’ within section 39A(1)(a) of the 1991 Act as applying to a pre-condition governing the making of such a committal order.”

WLR Daily, 30th October 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Child maintenance powers ’emasculated’ after court ruling – Daily Telegraph

“Absent parents who fail to support their children may no longer be threatened with jail after a court ruling against a Government body set up to pursue them.”

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Daily Telegraph, 31st October 2012

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Gay sperm donor told to pay child maintenance for ‘his’ two children – The Guardian

Posted October 29th, 2012 in artificial insemination, child support, news, paternity by sally

“A gay man from Essex who donated his sperm to enable a lesbian couple to have two children, but who was never named on their birth certificate and had no role in their upbringing, is being forced by the Child Support Agency to pay for their support – 13 years after the first child was born.”

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The Guardian, 26th October 2012

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No Direction Home? Financial Remedies and the Medium Asset case – Family Law Week

Posted October 22nd, 2012 in child support, divorce, family courts, news by sally

“Alexander Chandler, barrister, 1 Garden Court examines the principles the courts will apply in medium asset cases and offers practical guidance to those faced with the challenge of ‘stretching’ limited assets.”

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Family Law Week, 21st October 2012

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Judge criticises warring couple for squandering £1.7 million on bitter divorce battle – Daily Telegraph

Posted September 20th, 2012 in child support, costs, custody, divorce, judges, news by sally

“A couple who squandered £1.7 million during a bitter divorce and custody battle were criticised by a judge for driving their marriage ‘full tilt onto the rocks.'”

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Daily Telegraph, 19th September 2012

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In a Dorney-Kingdom of their own: Segal orders examined – Family Law week

Posted August 28th, 2012 in child support, financial provision, news by tracey

“Byron James, barrister, 14 Gray’s Inn Square, considers the circumstances in which Segal Orders can be made.”

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Family Law week, 28th August 2012

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Absent fathers to be fined up to £500 for missing child support – Daily Telegraph

“Absent fathers will be hit with up to £500 in fines for missing child support payments under tough new rules raising the cost of divorce.”

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Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2012

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Bogus doctor: Lewisham PCT’s Conrad De Souza jailed – BBC News

Posted October 25th, 2011 in child support, DNA, doctors, fraud, impersonation, news, sentencing by sally

“A man who spent a decade pretending to be a doctor at an NHS trust in south London has been jailed for 27 months.”

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BBC News, 24th October 2011

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Brough v Law and another – WLR Daily

Posted October 24th, 2011 in child support, financial provision, law reports by sally

Brough v Law and another [2011] EWCA Civ 1183; [2011] WLR (D) 300

“A maintenance assessment under which an absent parent was liable to pay maintenance in respect of a qualifying child to the parent with care did not end as a result of a brief reconciliation between the parents within paragraph 16(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Child Support Act 1991 as read with section 3 of that Act.”

WLR Daily, 20th October 2011

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Father has £108,000 taken from bank in record child support payment seizure – Daily Telegraph

Posted October 7th, 2011 in child support, confiscation, news by sally

“A father had £108,000 forcibly taken from his bank in a record child support payment seizure.”

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Daily Telegraph, 6th October 2011

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