Family Law Blog
Comment on divorce & family law
By Woolley & Co, on Thursday June 29, 2023 at 3:58 pm
Knowing where you stand during separation can be very difficult to comprehend, especially where you share children and/or financial assets. One solution to remedy this confusion would be a separation agreement, which outlines the terms and conditions that govern the separation. This includes the division of assets and any financial…
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By Woolley & Co, on Wednesday May 27, 2020 at 3:40 pm
This blog explores the alternatives you might consider when resolving disagreements during the divorce process. In any divorce there are often seriously difficult issues to resolve between the parties, so what are the sort of methods we can use as lawyers to help with that and to reach a resolution?…
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By Woolley & Co, on Thursday December 5, 2019 at 9:00 am
Part of the challenge we face as family lawyers is demystifying the process and dealing with the jargon that besets the legal profession and court process. A recent discussion in the office resulted in a challenge to come up with a dictionary of family law terms, essentially an A-Z of…
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By Woolley & Co, on Thursday May 23, 2019 at 10:44 am
A Stratford law firm is helping speed up and simplify family law cases for its clients by playing a leading role in a new pilot scheme for the Ministry of Justice. Woolley & Co was one of only a handful of family law firms to initially sign up to help…
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By Woolley & Co, on Tuesday September 25, 2018 at 11:17 am
If your parents are about to divorce or separate you may have questions about what might happen and be worried about things you see on TV or that friends tell you. This article has been written to provide the facts. To get a divorce one parent has to start the…
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By Woolley & Co, on Tuesday June 19, 2018 at 9:58 am
There’s a wealth of great content across the web that can help you with all matters Family Law, and there’s no better place to go for it than YouTube. Whilst there are plenty of Family Law websites out there with handy guides and articles on related topics, nothing lets you…
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By Woolley & Co, on Thursday February 22, 2018 at 9:41 am
A divorce or separation is often hardest on the children. Most separating parents are keen to make sure that their children are protected from harm. Unfortunately, not every parent realises the impact of their own actions on the well-being of their child. In this guest blog Soila Sindiyo of, Parenting…
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By Woolley & Co, on Wednesday February 14, 2018 at 10:37 am
It’s been widely reported that the Government is to take a good look again at civil partnerships. Earlier this month saw the second reading of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill in the Commons, which seeks to see how the Government can extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex…
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By Woolley & Co, on Wednesday January 31, 2018 at 12:15 pm
Children are the unintended victims of divorce and separation in our society. Many parents we speak to are keen to minimise the impact of their separation on their children but don’t always know the signs to look for, or what to do about them. Child Developmental Psychologist Soila Sindiyo of…
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By Woolley & Co, on Wednesday August 9, 2017 at 12:08 pm
The number of enquiries Woolley & Co receive about prenuptial agreements has risen sharply in the last 12 months. Maybe the message is getting through that understanding the full legal implications of your marriage and putting in place measures in case things don’t work out is a sensible part of…
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By Woolley & Co, on Wednesday May 10, 2017 at 12:21 pm
As a family law solicitor, I often say that ‘nothing surprises me’. But with the advent of new technologies and the proliferation of social media I find myself amazed by some of the things I read about in Family Law case notes and some of the incidents experienced by my…
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By Woolley & Co, on Wednesday August 31, 2016 at 1:51 pm
Uncertainty around many things in Britain is still high after our historic vote to leave Europe. We blogged a couple of weeks ago about the language of Brexit borrowing heavily from divorce and what the architects of the change could learn from us family law specialists. For many people though,…
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