Family Law Blog
Comment on divorce & family law
By Kate Butler, on Wednesday June 11, 2025 at 11:18 am
A divorce not only involves the dissolution of a marriage; there is also the question of how assets such as property will be divided. Who will get the house if you divorce? How will the proceeds from selling the house be divided? How does the court decide how a house…
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By Kate Butler, on Tuesday April 30, 2024 at 11:39 am
When you get divorced, the financial commitments you and your ex-partner have towards one another are not automatically severed. If you do not have a financial order which includes a clean break clause, your former partner could potentially have rights to property after divorce, even if you make a purchase…
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By Kate Butler, on Thursday February 23, 2023 at 10:00 am
As with many questions in family law, there is no one, simple answer to the question: what am I entitled to in a divorce settlement? Every case is different because the circumstances of each couple is different. The starting point for dividing assets will normally be a 50/50 split. However,…
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By Kate Butler, on Friday August 12, 2022 at 10:39 am
Recent changes to the way divorce proceedings are handled in the UK have provided much needed reform to the previous laws which dated back to 1973. These new divorce laws have removed the need to place blame on a partner by using reasons such as ”unreasonable behaviour”. Now, the only…
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By Kate Butler, on Thursday July 19, 2018 at 11:42 am
The Supreme Court has now handed down the judgment in the case of Mills v Mills, a case keenly watched by family lawyers as it sets out some further guidance on cases about payment of maintenance from one former spouse to the other. The Story So Far… Mr and Mrs…
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By Kate Butler, on Wednesday October 18, 2017 at 10:17 am
As Resolution family lawyers, we are always encouraging our clients to try and be reasonable, to be willing to compromise, and to keep their case in proportion. “Don’t let the lawyers be the ones who get all the money” is a phrase we hear ourselves saying time and time again….
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By Kate Butler, on Wednesday March 9, 2016 at 1:00 pm
The radical changes to the rules regarding the use of pension funds to buy annuity policies – described by some as a “pensions revolution” – were at the forefront of the new Governments’ budget announcements in March 2014. Under these new rules, since April 2015 pensioners are no longer as…
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By Kate Butler, on Tuesday November 10, 2015 at 1:28 pm
From TV programmes and films to the chat down the pub, mention divorce and ‘going to court’ is so often mentioned. Although many cases don’t end up in court I understand there is still a lot of confusion. It occurred to me that many people might not actually know what…
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By Kate Butler, on Friday February 27, 2015 at 11:09 am
The papers have been full of commentary on the family case heard by the Court of Appeal recently, in which Tracey Wright, the ex wife of a highly paid horse surgeon, was told very firmly that rather than expecting to receive substantial on-going maintenance from her former husband she should…
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By Kate Butler, on Thursday May 23, 2013 at 10:00 am
When a relationship or marriage breaks down, there is often a huge amount to sort out. Some things may be easy, but you can then get hung up on one tiny detail. Add to that the fact that you and your partner are soon to be ex-partners, so are probably…
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By Kate Butler, on Thursday April 18, 2013 at 10:00 am
Well, it’s finally happened. Changes in the way Legal Aid funds family law cases came into effect at the start of April. Seems like we have been talking about them for ages and finally it is all change. In actual fact, there have been two significant developments stemming from the…
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