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Reducing acrimony in later-life break ups

Pippa Allsop wonders whether the increase in 'silver splitters' and cohabiting couples is due to relaxation of social attitudes

The divorce courts' reaction to the Panama Papers

Keeping financial secrets an ocean away is as prevalent in family law as it is in offshore banking, but is anyone really surprised, writes Marilyn Stowe

A legal history of change

160 years later, reforms are still being made to our legal system; District Judge Nigel Law urges the profession to embrace them

From the archive: April 17, 1869

Since our last publication the Married Women's Property Bill (a copy of which will be found in our last week's issue) has passed its second reading without a division, and has been referred to a Select Committee.

A clean break on divorce?

The English courts are moving away from the traditional needs-based approach to deciding spousal maintenance applications, explains Caroline Park

Vulnerable will be hit hardest by new divorce tax

Divorce applicants with a low income could be refused their legal right to separation, writes Paul Hunt

Government divorce policy is 'failing', new figures show

Divorcing couples shun 'compulsory' mediation meetings and head straight to court

Uncertainty will plague the untruthful

The timing of the Mossack Fonseca leak less than a year after the rulings in Sharland v Sharland and Gohil v Gohil is uncanny. Dishonest former spouses beware