Family

• 48 million is OK

• Court of Appeal considers big money case and expresses doubts - read the report fully

• Adoption Procedure - Leave to Oppose Considered

• Adoption Procedure under the latest act -0 is child's welfare relevant to decisions about rights of parents?

• Adoption and Fostering Changes

• Consilio aticle about the latest family changes

• Advice for Vulnerable Adults

• Protecting vulnerable adults from harm

• Agreement About Maintenance Survives Death

• Ex-wife wins surprising victory against second wife

• Alarming Bankruptcy Case Upsets Divorce Lawyers

• If this case is right, no ex-wife is safe!

• Archive of Family Materials - March 2006

• The collection of all the Family materials published by us in March 2006

• Are LPAs Good For Clients?

• Solicitors for the Elderly see some advantages to Lasting Powers of Attorney

• Att-Gen Reviews Paediatrician's Files

• Hailed as a fight against criminal injustice this might help some family law cases too

• Better Education For Kids in Care

• Childen in care to get better education - plans in pieline

• CSA To Change

• The CSA to be given new role

• CSA to C-MEC

• Government for CSA replacement

• Canadian Same Sex Marriage Not Valid Here

• A Canadian same sex marriage is a civil partnership in the UK

• Care Case v Criminal Case?

• Care Case Judge cannot make final unappealable determination of criminal liabity even when he finds no liability on balance of probabilities.

• Care Proceedings Changes In The Wind

• Government to improve care proceedings for children by giving parents more legal advice?

• Child Abduction and the House of Lords

• House of Lords decides how to deal with international abduction cases

• Child Centred Courts?

• More Information about children from the police to the courts

• Child Seats For All?

• The rules about the new child seat requirements - another gold plating exercise following Euro rules?

• Child's Voice in Court

• Opening up the family court

• Childcare Act Passes

• New legislation to control child care

• Childhood Defence Stays But Presumption Goes

• Change in the law about the criminality of children - no more presumption of innocence

• Children Behind Bars

• Consilio considers the Carlile Report

• Civil Partnerships Recognised Europe Wide

• Civil Partnerships recognised in Europe; family get rights to stay

• Cohabitation Breakdown Studied At Last

• Study about cohabitation studied by government

• Compensation For Human Rights Breaches

• Must you be compensated fro HR breaches

• Constructive Trusts - Oral Agreement

• Constructive Trusts Case - Payer takes most

• Court Bundles - New Rules

• More and stru=icter rules about trial prep

• Court Makes SGO - Is It Right?

• Judge makes first SGO of his own motion

• Court Uses Common Sense About Home In Family Provision

• Robust court decides it can transfer a half share in house to joint tenant widow.

• DV Victim And Immigration Rules

• Domestic Violence victims to be given every chance to prove their case

• Domestic Violence - Two Views?

• Government clamps down while courtts are advised to be lenient.

• Domestic Violence in the Employment Context

• Employers urged to do more to deal with domestic violence

• Education Not = Residence

• Educated child not entitled to residence

• European Family Law Harmanisation

• Harman comments on European Family Law

• Expert Doctors and the GMC

• No Immunity from disciplinary proceedings for expert doctors

• FACTO

• Families Action for Court Transparency and Openness

• Family Assets and Crime

• Criminal law has proiority over family law?

• Family Court Decision Determinative?

• Can a consent order affect a homelessness application

• Family Courts to be Opened Up

• The Press are to have access to Family courts

• Family Intervention Projects Go National

• Got a problem family? Call the local FIP!

• Family Law News

• Law Society newsletter

• Family Law News - Issue 22

• Useful Newsletter from law Soc - Family Law News

• Family Law News - Law Society Newsletter

• The Law Society newsletter about Family Law

• Family Law from SPR

• Good quality, easy to read article from SPR - estranged fathers and Mackenzie friends - the latest

• Final LPA Forms and Regs, At Last

• Only 6 weeks to go and they publish the forms and regulations, almost.

• Forced Marriage Guidance

• Medical staff guided about forced marriage victims

• Forced Marriages Inaction?

• Is this the right way to deal with forced marriages?

• Forced marriages Again

• A second press release about forced marriage.

• Harman Patronises Parents

• Harriet Harman lays down the law about child disputes

• ILEX on Open Family Courts

• Everybody wants open courts, don't they?

• Jealousy After Infidelity No Defence

• Can Infidelity Justify Murder? -No, say Minister

• Judge Allows Anonymity Exemption

• Judge allows father t0 publicise family case

• Larger Children Must Wear Seatbelts

• Have you got your new booster seats fitted?

• Latest Conciliation Research

• Latest Research Calls Current Conciliation Processes Into Doubt

• Law Society Fights Legal Aid Corner

• Law Society Raises the Legal Aid Flag

• Leave to Apply for Special Guardianship Order?

• Applications for leave to apply for an SGO

• Lords Support Wives - Miller and McFarlane -Updated

• House of Lords makes landmark decisions about ancillary relief.

• Magistrates cannot Question CSA?

• Can magistrates query whether the CSA assessment they are asked to enforce is correct?

• Maintenance Agreements for the Very Rich

• Being very rich can have its disadvantages

• Making Courts More Child Friendly

• Consulting on this other tricky question

• Millions of Cohabitees Affected

• House of Lords tells unmarried couples to get real

• More DV Victims Win

• Domestic Violence victims are more successful in court

• More Judges Can Hear Placement Cases

• DJ's get more powers

• Muslim Family Law Not Grounds For Asylum

• Woman loses asylum claim despite likelihood of loss of child

• New Ancillary Relief Rules

• More new Ancillary Relief Rules

• New Ideas for Care Cases - UPDATED

• A new report suggests changes in care case regime

• New Mediation Helpline

• Government backs mediation

• No Need To Ask Government For Marriage Permission

• Human rights prevail in marriage of immigrants

• No Relief for Self Employed Fron CSA Calculation

• CSA to ignore accounting principles in old pre March 2003 cases

• Open Family Court Hearings Soon?

• Harriet Harman supports sister by pursuing openness in Family cases?

• Parents Have No Rights in Care Cases?

• Social workers have to put children first?

• Pension Sharing Order

• Pension Sharing Order is fairer.

• Press Rights Extended at Inquests

• Press can be allowed to child's inquest

• Public Guardianship Fees Announced

• Fees under Mental Capacity Act announced

• Public Guardianship Fees and Mental Capacity Update

• Fees under Mental Capacity Act announced and so are guidelines for carers etc

• Radical Plans for Family Court Changes?

• Harriet Harman sets out her vision of the future of family courts

• Relief In Small Company Tax case

• House of Lords holds in favour of taxpayers - but what if they had not been married, just living together?

• Reunite

• Reunite for Abducted Children Crisis Management

• SGO and Name Changes

• SGO's don't give people all the powers they might expect - it depends

• Serving Parents in Adoption - Is It Necessary?

• Old Adoptiond finished under new rules - when to serve?

• Sham Marriage Legislation Breaches HR Act

• Sham Marriage legislation is discriminatory

• Should All Children Be Separately Represented?

• Consulting on this tricky question

• Small Company Share Valuation

• Company Case has Family ramifications

• Vacation Work 2006

• Guide from the President about work in the vacation period.

• Void marriage - Who are the Child's Parents?

• Case about marriage void because of sex of a party.