Work and Pensions Minister Alison McGovern has confirmed that reform of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will form part of ...

Simon Bruce has spent more than 40 years practising family law. He’s seen the field evolve, led high-stakes cases and helped ...

The Family Law Awards 2025 are officially open for entries - but the clock is ticking. With a deadline of Friday 6 June, now ...

Nail testing is a toxicological method used to detect drug use or, in the case of nail alcohol testing, to monitor abstinence or chronic and excessive alcohol consumption over an extended period.

In Wolverhampton City Council v JA & Ors [2017] EWFC 62, Keehan J dealt with a care case which involved allegations of sexual abuse of two young girls. They were aged 13 (X) and 12 (Y) at the time of ...

The ever-developing law for cohabiting partners took another step forward after a landmark ruling in the Supreme Court allowed an unmarried woman’s appeal to receive a survivor’s pension from her ...

Do family courts adopt a consistent approach to children’s autonomy? If not, should they? This article critically examines the inconsistency with which courts address children’s autonomy in ...

This article is concerned with the reform of kinship care law in the light of recent governmental policy announcements. The intention of government is to give greater prominence to kinship care ...

Chattels, whether art, jewellery or other heirlooms, often hold significant personal and financial value. Unfortunately, when marriages involving them come to an end, couples often face bitter ...

For over 30 years, English family law has maintained a clear separation between children and financial remedy proceedings; a system which generally works well. However, in international relocation ...

Anne Barlow, Professor of Family Law and Policy at the University of Exeter and academic member of the Family Justice Council Drawing on the preliminary findings of the three year ESRC-funded Mapping ...

The labours of the Private Law Working Group, set up by the President of the Family Division back in August 2013, have now come to fruition and on 22 April the new Practice Direction 12B - Child ...