Posted in ancillary relief, celebrity, divorce, financial, news, openness on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, we all knew there would be some kind of appeal - and apparently it is by way of Heather Mills McCartney appealing the decision to make the full judgment public, due to be heard tomorrow. In the meantime here is a link to the summary of the judgment published today.
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In short, Heather Mills McCartney [...]
Posted in care, children, courts, family, financial on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The NSPCC and the Law Society have recently aired their concerns by press release about the detrimental side-effects that the enormous hike in court fees for the issue of care proceedings is likely to have on child welfare. NSPCC director and chief executive, Dame Mary Marsh, says quite rightly:
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‘It is a matter of public interest [...]
Posted in discrimination, family, financial, kinship on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Yet another reminder that kinship carers are entitled to equality of treatment when compared other types of foster carers - the Local Government Ombudsman has just published a report relating to an instance of discriminatory treatment by way of a refusal to make the same payments available to kinship carers as were available to other [...]
Posted in blogging, divorce, family, financial, other legal blogs on December 22, 2007 | No Comments »
The new ancillary actuary blog is intended to promote discussion of the financial aspects of divorce, amongst the professionals working in that area. I am in deepest darkest West Virginia with nothing but a painfully slow dialup connection so I don’t know if its any good, but here is the link.
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