Family Law Advice UK

Who keeps the pet when a marriage ends? In law a dog or cat is property — a chattel, like the car — but…

Transgender parents in the UK keep their legal relationship with their children through every stage of transition — the law on that point is…

A clean break order ends the financial relationship between divorcing spouses for good: once made, neither can bring maintenance, capital, pension or estate claims…

An international divorce is one where the spouses’ lives cross borders — different nationalities, homes in different countries, or assets spread across jurisdictions. Two…

Spouses can transfer assets between them free of capital gains tax while they are living together. Separation used to end that treatment at the…

There is no such thing as common-law marriage in England and Wales. However long you live together, unmarried partners have no right to maintenance…

Are prenuptial agreements legally binding in the UK? Not automatically — but since Radmacher v Granatino the courts will normally hold a couple to…

Spousal maintenance after divorce is neither automatic nor for life by default — two myths that cause equal and opposite panic. It exists for…

In Hirachand v Hirachand the Supreme Court closed the “back door” on litigation funding in inheritance disputes: a conditional fee agreement success fee cannot…

Howe v Howe is the 2025 decision in which an estranged adult daughter — described in her father’s will file as “lazy” and “useless”…

No-fault divorce has been the only way to divorce in England and Wales since 6 April 2022: you state the marriage has irretrievably broken…

A spouse who ignores divorce papers cannot stop your divorce — they can only slow it. The no-fault process has no defence to the…