Click here for Part 1 of Go and Get a Job. ‘Team Mrs W’ The main problem with the Mrs W ruling isn’t so much the idea that women should not rely on their ex-husband’s for spousal maintenance, but rather the fact that
This particular divorce case has hit headlines hard recently after a judge told a divorced wife and mum that she simply needed to ‘go and get a job’. The couple divorced in 2008 after 11 years of marriage, having had two children together
It’s nearly Divorce D-day but does it really exist? And, if so, can we really blame the turkey? Not a year goes by without a newspaper article being written about the arrival of Divorce Day – the supposedly busiest day of the
In an attempt to reduce the legal aid UK bill by £350 million per year, huge cuts came into force on 1 April 2013 under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. Family law cases were hugely affected and
Divorce (Financial Provisions) Bill received its second reading in the House of Lords in June 2014. One objective of the Bill, which was introduced by Baroness Deech, is to limit maintenance payments to three years by making changes to the Matrimonial Causes