Family Law Advice UK

Cafcass — the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service — is the independent body that advises the family courts in England about…

Divorce divides what the marriage built — not necessarily everything you own. English law separates matrimonial assets, shared equally as a starting point, from…

Grandparents have no automatic legal right to see their grandchildren in England and Wales — but the law gives them a route. When divorce,…

The final divorce order ends the marriage — it does not end the financial claims between you. Those survive indefinitely unless a court dismisses…

A nikah performed in England and Wales creates a marriage that is fully valid in Islam — and, on its own, invisible to English…

Decree nisi and decree absolute no longer exist for new divorces: since April 2022 they are the conditional order and the final order. The…

Divorce after five years’ separation — the old ground that needed no consent — was abolished with the rest of the fault-and-facts system in…