Child support agency urged to rethink fees
18th May 2012
A group of MPs have called on the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) to reconsider its strategy to charge parents a fee for applying...
CMEC accounts not fully signed off
15th May 2012
The National Audit Office has not fully signed off the accounts of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) due to a number of errors. ...
Disappointment over gay marriage snub
11th May 2012
Campaigners have hit out at the Government’s decision to exclude gay marriage plans from this week’s Queen’s Speech. The issue of wh...
More rights planned for divorced fathers
09th May 2012
Divorced fathers are likely to be granted more rights to see their children if the arrangement benefits the child under a Bill outlined in the Queen&#...
‘Tabloid marriages’ bad for society
02nd May 2012
A High Court Judge, who has seen an unprecedented increase in divorce during his work in family judiciary, is blaming the “Hello magazine approa...
Divorce rates rise sharply over century
13th April 2012
Figures from the Office for National Statistics have been released to compare population trends in England and Wales between 1911 and 2010. The data r...
Care applications reach new high
12th April 2012
Research has shown that the number of applications to take children into care surpassed 10,000 in the 12 months to the end of March. Last month some 8...
City banker wins landmark civil partnership appeal
30th March 2012
An equity analyst has won an appeal after challenging the way a High Court judge divided assets between his former civil partner and himself. Peter La...
Judge calls for ‘no-fault’ divorces
28th March 2012
The most senior family law judge in England and Wales has called for the introduction no-fault divorces, allowing people to get divorced without havin...
Katie Price settles second divorce
20th March 2012
Former glamour model Jordan – or Katie Price – has divorced Alex Reid due to his “unreasonable behaviour” in what is thought t...
