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Nuptial Agreements

Financial Remedies – Next Steps on the Road to Reform?

Financial Remedies – Next Steps on the Road to Reform?

1.1 On 18 December 2024 the Law Commission published its Scoping Report on financial remedies on divorce and dissolution.[[1]] The Scoping Report sets out our findings that the current law does not provide a cohesive framework in which couples going through a divorce can expect fair and sufficiently

Domestic Abuse, Nuptial Agreements and Financial Remedies: A Cultural Shift?

Domestic Abuse, Nuptial Agreements and Financial Remedies: A Cultural Shift?

As family practitioners will know, the dynamics involved in negotiating nuptial agreements are no less nuanced than those in other parts of our work. There can be power imbalances, cultural clashes and differing perceptions of fairness. As we become more alive to the prevalence and forms of domestic abuse and

Pre-Nuptial Agreement Drafting: Is the Profession Earning ‘an Honest Shilling’?

Pre-Nuptial Agreement Drafting: Is the Profession Earning ‘an Honest Shilling’?

Introduction In the same year when the Law Commission published its report Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements and recommended that there be ‘statutory confirmation of the contractual validity of marital agreements’ (1.32), Coleridge J, in his address at the 2014 Family Law Conference stated: ‘I am convinced that the