The basic aim of the law when sharing assets between the parties on divorce is to achieve fairness. Fairness dictates that only assets that are ‘matrimonial’ in nature should be shared, as it is not considered to be fair to share assets that have no connection to the...
One would of course normally expect the parties to a financial remedy application on divorce to incur reasonably similar amounts of legal costs, assuming that they are both legally represented. But what if one party incurred significantly more costs than the other?...
It should go without saying that when you are involved in financial remedy proceedings on divorce (or, indeed, in any type of court proceedings) you should comply with all orders and requirements of the court, and generally conduct yourself in an honest and...
One might imagine that dividing matrimonial assets on divorce involves simply calculating the total value of the assets and deciding how that total should be divided between the parties. However, there can be a problem with such a simplistic approach. Not all assets...
There are some 3.6 million cohabiting couple families in the UK, making up one in five of all families. And yet all of these couples have little or no legal protection if they split up. Worse still, many of them believe that they do have the same protection as married...
