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According to an item in the Daily Telegraph at the weekend, the Government is thinking of requiring a child’s father to sign the birth certificate. Apparently there are 50,000 babies born each year whose father is not named on the certificate. No details yet, for example what rights or responsibilities may or may not go
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During your divorce you may have to swear an affidavit, or swear that the contents of a statement or a financial disclosure form are true. If you are uncomfortable with the idea of swearing an oath, you can opt for the non-religious version, called affirmation. Simply tell the person administering the oath (a solicitor or
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If you want to rely on adultery when you divorce your spouse, you should be aware that you have to find it intolerable to live with him or her. During the course of the proceedings you have to swear an affidavit. Are you prepared to swear on oath that you find it intolerable to live with your
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Statistics reported on Saturday in the Daily Telegraph show that the number of divorces granted in England & Wales last year was 11% lower than the previous year. The one age group to buck the trend was the over 60s, where there was a 4%increase in the number of divorces – ‘silver separations’ the Telegraph calls
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The Supreme Court’s judgement in the case of Kernott v Jones was published last week and clarifies the law on the question of who is entitled to how much of the value of the jointly-owned home in cases where the couple aren’t married. But the Government should modernise the law on cohabitants’ rights. It had the opportunity to do
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If you have been married to someone you have the right to make a financial claim against them if you separate and divorce. There is no time limit – you can make a financial claim many years after the separation, and such cases are not that uncommon. There are only two things that stop a
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Until now not a single divorce case involving a lottery win has come before the High Court. This is surprising considering that the National Lottery started as long ago as 1994. The judge awarded the husband £82,000 out of the wife’s £500,000 win. The husband would have received nothing if he had not needed it for his
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Which public body administers the child support system? The Child Support Agency (CSA), surely? Yes and no. The CSA’s functions have been managed for some time now by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC), although the CSA system is still basically the same as previously. The Government has now invited comment on a new
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A father who had failed to pay maintenance for his daughter for 16 years recently had £108,000 taken from his bank account under a procedure available to the Child Support Agency once the court has been satisfied that the money is due. The father’s name has not been released. His reaction to the procedure can
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There were 30,400 decrees absolute granted for the dissolution of marriage in the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of one per cent compared to the fourth quarter of 2009. This increase is the first for several years but obviously it is too soon to say that the year-on-year downward trend has gone into reverse.