Features – Page 8
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Regulation of surrogacy
Recent cases prove that universal laws are needed to provide clarity and help secure the welfare of surrogate babies.
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Volunteering for regulation
Should we open our doors to unregulated providers via a voluntary scheme?
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Adoption and access to family history
The law around adoptees’ attempts to find out about their real parents.
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Financial remedy applications
A summary of the significant procedural developments affecting applications in the family court.
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‘Contact’ and alcohol abuse
Peter Glover considers how breath-test devices can help facilitate ‘contact’ in family cases.
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Secular sense of justice
Acclaimed novelist Ian McEwan speaks to the Gazette about his new book.
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Applications made without notice
Julie Exton explains recent guidance, which has been circulated via designated family judges.
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Disabled people’s trusts and inheritance
Legislation heading to the Lords should open up new possibilities for disabled people who are the beneficiaries of wills.
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Legal services orders
A recent decision should herald an increase in the use of legal services orders.
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Family Drug and Alcohol Court: breaking the habit
Despite precarious funding, the court has pioneered an approach to fighting parental addiction that keeps more families together.
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Interpreting wills
We look at an example of a misunderstanding of the purpose of a precedent following Lords’ decisions on interpretation.
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Clerical errors in wills
The court appears to be adopting a more flexible approach to rectification of wills, in order to ensure that justice prevails.
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Administering an estate in the Irish republic
We highlight the procedures for extracting an Irish grant of representation in circumstances where the deceased owned property within the Republic of Ireland.
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Prenuptial agreements and Radmacher
Family solicitors consider the potential implications of the Law Commission report, Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreement.
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Counting the cost post-separation
Problems can arise when taking into account bonuses earned after a couple have separated.
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Family courts: women and children first
Men have every right to feel disillusioned with the family courts system.
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Probate: rectification and interpretation
An in-depth look at the recent important wills mix-up judgment.
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Residency tested
A landmark case concerning habitual residence shows how the courts are adapting to social change.
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Family: applications for freezing orders
A recent judgment is absolutely essential reading for any practitioner specialising in financial remedy applications.