The court service (HMCTS for short) has been putting together and trialling 'online' divorce and this is now available to some to use to go through divorce proceedings as opposed to using the paper version. There are limitations. You can only use it to dissolve a marriage, not a civil partnership …
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Divorce and ‘unreasonable behaviour’
Big decision in Family Law from the Supreme Court today involving Mrs. Tini Owens, Mr Hugh Owens and Resolution. What’s it about? The interpretation of section 1(2)(b) Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, which is basically about the behaviour of one party towards another and the effect that behaviour …
Grounds for Divorce
The group Elbow sang back in 2008 that they were working on a cocktail called grounds for divorce. Not much has changed since then. Our law is old(ish) – 1973. There is one ground for divorce (irretrievable breakdown of marriage) but you have to go on and state a reason from one of five …