Breaking-up before the Big Day
Last time we discussed how children fare during a split or divorce. This time we’re discussing Pre-nuptial agreements: Planning how to break-up before you get [...]
Legal Issues
Lots of helpful advice about legal issues as featured in the North London Magazines: Muswell Flyer – Highgate Handbook – Crouch End Connection
A Home For The Politically Homeless
The recent resignations of several Labour MPs are further evidence that our politics is broken. Both the mainstream parties are riven by internal politics and conflict, [...]
Splitting Up and Conflict: How Do Children Fare?
Family Portrait, a study undertaken by Gingerbread and the University of Sheffield, looked at the wellbeing of children living in single-parent households. The results are [...]
No-Fault Divorce
No Fault Divorce allows a married couple to divorce without the need to state that one spouse was at fault. The Government has issued a consultation paper suggesting [...]
How do children manage when parents divorce or split up
Research has been carried out by Cafcass[1] on how children fare when their parents separate. It includes views from parents, children advocate groups, and various academics [...]
A New Law Firm in Highgate Village
The Team in Highgate Sam Smith – is a partner and leads the team in Highgate. He advises investors and developers as well as owner-occupiers on a range of residential [...]
DIVORCE: How unreasonable is unreasonable behaviour?
There are surprisingly few divorce trials. Mostly divorces go through the court by agreement, one way or another. Therefore, when a divorce goes to an appeal, all divorce [...]
Divorce loose ends that lead back to court
26 years after a divorce was half completed, and decades after the couple had informally agreed how to split their finances, the husband came to court asking for more [...]
The Government’s cruel “hostile environment” policy created the Windrush scandal
Even as an island built on immigration, the landing of the HMT Empire Windrush was special. Filled with men and women who had been proactively invited to the UK, as [...]
Protecting your child? or just plain hostile to the other parent?
I am a family divorce lawyer and mediator at Hopkin Murray Beskine Solicitors. There has been a recent case[1] of a 6 year old girl who had been the focus of court cases for [...]