Divorce and Separation

A family business faces four legal pressures its founders rarely plan for together: divorce inside the family, incapacity of a key owner, death and…

Standish v Standish is the Supreme Court’s decision, handed down on 2 July 2025, that redrew the boundary between matrimonial and non-matrimonial property: the…

Collaborative divorce settles a separation in face-to-face meetings, each of you advised by your own solicitor throughout — with one rule that changes everything:…

A Part 25 application asks the family court for permission to rely on expert evidence — a business valuer, a pension actuary, a psychologist,…

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…