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A new report by Kinship, the leading charity for kinship carers in the UK, shows that a lack of financial and other support is stopping kinship foster carers moving to kinship arrangements outside the ...

The two judgments of Keehan J in child sexual exploitation (CSE), and later reporting restrictions order (RRO), cases provide food for thought on a variety of aspects of family law, human rights and ...

'The law relating to financial orders is inherently unclear. It is not possible to discern from the statute what the law requires, although the courts and family lawyers administer the law with ...

Minister thanks lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community for ‘selfless dedication’ to vulnerable children. The number of children adopted by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) ...

Over the years, the wills and succession questions I have been asked more often than any other concern stepchildren: Do they inherit on intestacy, where there’s no will? Where a will leaves assets to ...

The Law Society has published a devastating critique of LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012), which slashed civil and family legal aid. In a report published this week, ...

The full version of this article appears in the August 2017 issue of Family Law. Find out more or request a free 1-week trial of Family Law journal. Please quote: 100482. On any view, Sir Henry Alfred ...

1. There is a right under s 10 LASPO to civil legal aid for any out-of-scope matter where an exceptional case determination [‘ECD’] has been made by the Director of Legal Aid Casework. 2. An ECD must ...

Marilyn Freeman, Head of Reunite Research Unit, Senior Family Law Lecturer, London Metropolitan University. The Reunite Research Unit, led by Marilyn Freeman, has recently completed a 2-year research ...

The subject of cohabitation has come to the fore in recent years with the huge number of people who now cohabit in modern Britain for whatever reason. It has long been ignored by many lawyers and ...

“No one enters litigation simply expecting a blank cheque.” Francis J in WG v HG [2018] EWFC 84. But is this the case, or are we experiencing a new wave of litigants chancing their luck at the ...