Claudia Hubert

Following on from our recent blog on Divorce and Pensions: Why Does This Asset Typically Get Ignored, we focus on the misconceptions around pension valuations and the Pensions Advisory Group’s (PAG) advice on this in PAG 2. The...

What is Child Maintenance? Child maintenance is the regular payment made by a non-resident parent to the person or parent with care of the child to help pay for the child’s everyday living costs, for example, food, clothes,...

Since the introduction of no-fault divorce on 6 April 2022, couples can divorce or end their civil partnership without the need to apportion blame or rely on a period of separation. All that is required is a statement that the marriage or civil partnership...

June is Pride month and there has been much to celebrate in the LGBTQ+ community over recent years, including significant steps that have been taken in the world of family law and parental rights. So let’s take a look at some of the recent changes and...

When you apply for a divorce, your spouse should receive a notification by post confirming that an application for divorce has been made. They will also be provided with a link by email to allow them to view the application online via the HMRC portal. On...

The Office for National Statistics has released figures revealing that in 2021 births registered outside of a marriage or civil partnership outnumbered those within marriage or civil partnership for the first time since records began in 1845. There...

You may be looking to change your name for a number of reasons, such as after divorce, gender reassignment or simply where you would prefer to be known by a different name. What is a “Change of Name Deed”?...

A Gender Recognition Certificate (“GRC”) is a formal document issued by the Gender Recognition Panel to legally recognise an individual’s acquired gender in the UK. At birth an individual’s gender is registered on their birth...

A financial consent order is a legally binding document that sets out the financial agreement that the divorcing couple or couple dissolving a civil partnership has reached. What is included in a Financial Consent Order? A...

Separating parents will be assisted to resolve disputes through a new million-pound mediation scheme that was launched by the Government on 26 March 2021. Under the new time-limited scheme, approximately 2,000 families will be able to apply for a one-off...

The “Wagatha Christie” scandal hit the headlines late last year when Coleen Rooney wrote several posts on Twitter about suspected leaks of private information to The Sun newspaper. Coleen explained that the leaked information could only have been...