Basic Principles of an Amicable Divorce Financial Settlement An amicable financial settlement is something that a divorcing couple may be able to achieve in certain circumstances to save them the stress and expense of a trial in court. Essentially the aim is for a divorcing couple to try and reach agreement to divide their assets when divorcing […]
Category: Divorce Grounds
Annulment and Divorce Annulment is a declaration by the court that a marriage was not legally valid or had become legally invalid. Annulment is different from divorce. In a divorce you are asking the court to end your marriage. However; in an annulment you are actually stating to a court that your marriage was never […]
Link between divorcing parents and suicide Adults whose parents divorced when they were children are more likely to consider suicide than their peers, researchers in Canada have suggested. Lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson of the University of Toronto and colleagues examined gender specific differences in a sample of 6,647 adults, of whom 695 had experienced parental divorce […]
What To Do If a Divorce Is Imminent For many people, the thought of divorce can be both very stressful and trying. It is a time when emotions are running at their most overwhelming and much is said and done which is often regretted later. It is at times like this when having an expert […]
Challenging or Appealing Consent Orders We are regularly asked whether a Consent Order (which is a court order that couples voluntarily agreed to) can be challenged. Clearly it’s a contradiction in terms – because you want to appeal an agreement, which you yourself signed up to in the first place! However; there can be many […]
