Features – Page 5
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FeatureComing to harm
Controlling and coercive behaviour was recognised as a discrete criminal offence in 2015, but is enough being done to protect victims?
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FeatureSaving private client
Private client solicitors have had to rethink the way things are done in the last year, but they are relying on more than the pandemic to grow their practices.
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FeatureThe role of mediation in family disputes
The need to promote the benefits of family mediation has never been greater.
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FeatureGiving something back during the pandemic
Forsters’ family team helps support victims of domestic violence through various local and national charities.
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FeatureParental alienation and narcissism in relationship breakdown
Increasing feature with separating couples is the charge that, typically, the man is a narcissist and the mother is alienating the children from the father. Is it always the reality?
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FeatureLaw Commission’s consultation on marriage reforms
Much needed change is now on the horizon and it can’t come soon enough.
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FeatureThe need for certainty on wills
Management and supervision of remote will executions should be made a reserved activity.
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FeatureAdministering estates during the coronavirus pandemic
Lockdown has made it hard for personal representatives to administer estates within a reasonable period of time.
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FeatureIn the giving vein
It is hard to imagine the charitable sector without lawyers, yet the interaction between the two has not always been harmonious.
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FeatureSurrogate babies left in legal limbo
With Covid-19 restrictions and borders locked, families are not able to travel to collect their babies born by international surrogacy.
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FeatureFamily fortunes
A huge backlog of family cases, increased by lockdown, is just one of many challenges facing family lawyers, writes Katharine Freeland
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FeatureCoronavirus Q&A: Inheritance tax relief for emergency workers
Common queries answered about inheritance tax relief for ‘blue light’ workers.
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FeatureCoronavirus Q&A: Family law
Common questions answered around family and children’s law during the Covid-19 outbreak.
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FeatureAvailability of two-plus-two marriage ceremonies
Figures suggest that in some areas it is virtually impossible for a couple to book a two-plus-two ceremony within a few months of deciding to marry.