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Prioritising Children? Competing Principles in Financial Remedies Reform

Prioritising Children? Competing Principles in Financial Remedies Reform

‘A fairer end to relationships’ identifies four guiding principles, and these can pull in different directions. Whilst the consultation does not explain how the principles have been balanced with one another, such an analysis is essential to promote a coherent framework.

Assessment of Hierarchical Needs Under the Government’s Proposed Reforms

Assessment of Hierarchical Needs Under the Government’s Proposed Reforms

In an effort to introduce greater certainty, the Government has proposed a new hierarchical approach to be undertaken by the court when considering needs. The authors question whether, in practice, it will be easy to police such a distinction. Family lawyers are nothing if not creative.

‘A Fairer End to Relationships’: Government Proposals for Reform of Financial Remedies on Divorce and Cohabitation

‘A Fairer End to Relationships’: Government Proposals for Reform of Financial Remedies on Divorce and Cohabitation

For many years there have been strong movements to reform, improve and make clearer and more certain the law relating to financial outcomes on divorce. In early June 2026 the UK government produced a consultation paper with a very fast response date.

Pets on Divorce and Separation: Why the Consultation Matters

Pets on Divorce and Separation: Why the Consultation Matters

The Working Group on Pets on Divorce and Separation is concerned about the lack of guidance in relation to pets as chattels. The current reform project provides an opportunity to consider whether the approach taken in jurisdictions such as Spain and Australia would be appropriate here.

Bringing Child Welfare to the Fore: Why the Financial Remedies Reform Consultation Should Unify the Section 25 Checklist

Bringing Child Welfare to the Fore: Why the Financial Remedies Reform Consultation Should Unify the Section 25 Checklist

Caroline Bowden, Sophie Connors and James Pirrie, working as part of a reform sub-group of the Family Solutions Group, propose an adjustment of s 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, merging and reassembling subsections (2) and (3).

A Fairer End to Relationships? Some Reflections on the Core Principles of the Government’s Proposals to Reform the Law of Financial Remedies on Divorce.

A Fairer End to Relationships? Some Reflections on the Core Principles of the Government’s Proposals to Reform the Law of Financial Remedies on Divorce.

In June 2026, the Ministry of Justice published ‘A fairer end to relationships’, a wide-ranging consultation on reforms to the law of financial remedies on divorce, and to the position of cohabitants. This piece focuses on the central principles of the proposed reforms.

The ‘Sandwich Generation’ Divorce: Financial Pressures Across Generations

The ‘Sandwich Generation’ Divorce: Financial Pressures Across Generations

A growing number of middle aged individuals find themselves caught between competing financial responsibilities. The so called ‘sandwich generation’ increasingly face these pressures at the very point when their own relationships are most strained. Divorce within this cohort raises complex issues.