Family breakdown is the ‘most complained about area of law’, according to a new report out today. Excessive charges, poor service and customers who unfairly blamed lawyers for the outcome more…

The Co-operative has become the first major consumer brand to be licensed by the solicitors’ regulatory body to offer the full range of high street legal services. Co-operative Legal Services more…

In the last 12 months or so, those of us involved in supporting families going through divorce and separation have been onlookers to any number of government announcements: Mediation will more…

The Government has announced plans to rewrite the law relating to legal disputes about children following their parents’ separation to create a legal presumption of shared parenting. This is in more…

Ministers have backed a ‘presumption of shared parenting’ between fathers and mothers following a relationship breakdown, flying in the face of the views of an independent review of family justice. more…

After six years of decline in the divorce figures, they are back on the rise again. The Office for National Statistics announced yesterday that divorces rose by almost 5% in more…

The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that a man from who split up from his partner nearly two decades ago is not entitled to half the value of the house they more…

And so to Parliament again to hear about the impact of legal aid cuts on victims of domestic violence in a report by that very British group, the Women’s Institute. more…

A hotel porter won a share of his ex-wife’s £500,000 National Lottery payout in what is reckoned to be the first divorce case involving the distribution of a lottery windfall. more…

Divorces in England and Wales are apparently being held up by couples sniping over supermarket penalty points and air miles as the recession bites, according to Manchester-based law firm Pannones. more…

Who said romance was dead? A legal expenses insurer has launched what it rather delicately refers to as ‘nuptial insurance products’. ‘As the first of their kind to hit the more…