News & Publications - Family & Matrimonial

The Rights of Grandparents

Grandparents are set to get sweeping legal rights as part of the Government plants to put "strong, stable and loving families" back at the heart of British life, according to Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.

For years, grandparents have had to take extended legal steps to try and secure even minimum contact with their grandchildren when couples separate. Grandparents have no automatic right to spend time with their grandchildren. Sadly, almost half face being cut off completely... read more

Law Society Conference in Malaga

 Teresa Cullen, Managing Partner at Rochman Landau and part of the Matrimonial Department, was recently invited to speak at a conference held by the Law Society and the Malaga Bar Association to talk about Private Client Issues in English and Spanish Law.

The conference was held over two days and was well attended by over 100 delegates from both England and Spain. Teresa spoke about some of the practical issues which apply to cross border divorce and ancillary relief claims.

Philippa Dolan's letter to the Sunday Times

 I WAS horrified to read Melanie McDonagh’s article “Husbands beware: a starter wife is for life ” (Comment, last week). How can she possibly regard this as a victory for women or our legal system? In 1967 David and Philippa Vaughan married. They were in their twenties. Their union was childless and their relationship broke down some years later; they separated, and were divorced in 1985.

Twenty-five years later, when David was 71, retired and in ill health, the wife he married 4... read more

National (and International) Lottery alive and well in London divorce courts

It’s a bit of a cliché.  London; Divorce capital of the world.  But another case has confirmed it, namely Agbaje ([2010] UK SC13).  This was a decision of the Supreme Court (formerly House of Lords) last week.  The case concerned a Nigerian couple who divorced in Nigeria but Mrs Agbaje moved to London after the couple separated in 1999 and sought to persuade the High Court, Court of Appeal and ultimately the Supreme Court (on Legal Aid) that the Court here should allow her to r... read more

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