Features – Page 9
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FeatureProbate: proprietary estoppel
What must a claimant show if a case of proprietary estoppel is to succeed?
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FeatureSpousal maintenance
Disputes related to this are often the main bar to divorcing couples resolving financial disagreements. Recent comprehensive guidance aims to help.
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FeatureChild abduction changes
Proposed amendments to child abduction legislation will have a far-reaching impact on family law.
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FeaturePhasing in new legislation
Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act is the major piece of criminal legislation this year. Here is what the changes mean for solicitors.
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FeatureNil-rate band legacies
Wills made before 2007 by testators who by the date of death had acquired transferred nil-rate band have presented problems.
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FeatureRegulation of surrogacy
Recent cases prove that universal laws are needed to provide clarity and help secure the welfare of surrogate babies.
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FeatureVolunteering for regulation
Should we open our doors to unregulated providers via a voluntary scheme?
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FeatureAdoption and access to family history
The law around adoptees’ attempts to find out about their real parents.
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FeatureFinancial remedy applications
A summary of the significant procedural developments affecting applications in the family court.
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Feature‘Contact’ and alcohol abuse
Peter Glover considers how breath-test devices can help facilitate ‘contact’ in family cases.
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FeatureSecular sense of justice
Acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan speaks to the Gazette about his new book.
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FeatureApplications made without notice
Julie Exton explains recent guidance, which has been circulated via designated family judges.
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FeatureDisabled people’s trusts and inheritance
Legislation heading to the Lords should open up new possibilities for disabled people who are the beneficiaries of wills.
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FeatureLegal services orders
A recent decision should herald an increase in the use of legal services orders.
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FeatureFamily Drug and Alcohol Court: breaking the habit
Despite precarious funding, the court has pioneered an approach to fighting parental addiction that keeps more families together.
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FeatureInterpreting wills
We look at an example of a misunderstanding of the purpose of a precedent following Lords’ decisions on interpretation.
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FeatureClerical errors in wills
The court appears to be adopting a more flexible approach to rectification of wills, in order to ensure that justice prevails.
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FeatureAdministering an estate in the Irish republic
We highlight the procedures for extracting an Irish grant of representation in circumstances where the deceased owned property within the Republic of Ireland.
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FeaturePrenuptial agreements and Radmacher
Family solicitors consider the potential implications of the Law Commission report, Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreement.