According to data released by Legal and General and the Centre for Economic Business, parents are, on average, helping out to the tune of £18,000 (although London is over £30,000 and the South East over £20,000) in 27% of all house purchases, so around 317,000 properties a year. Whilst there is a …
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Getting ready for a court hearing –preparing your papers
You’ve sent your court form off, paid the court fee, the court has stamped it and given it a case number, sending it back to you with a date and time to be at court. There will be lots of other information in there, so read it all. Let’s not kid ourselves though. This is tricky stuff and you are …
Court delays affecting divorcing couples
Is there anything that can help? There was a time when I could confidently tell a client the actual court process would take about 6 to 9 months - and by that, I mean the time it takes for the court to process the paperwork. Since the launch of the Divorce Centres, the time estimate has crept up …