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Where will our children live after our separation?

Following separation. parents usually want to minimise any disruption to their children, ensuring that they soon settle into a new routine – whether that is in the existing family home, or following a move to a new home.  Where your children will live may be an obvious or straightforward decision, for example if one parent

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Steps to ending an abusive marriage

Research suggests that as many as one in four women and one in eight men will experience abuse in their marriage at some point.  “Ending an abusive marriage will mean not only leaving your spouse but also formally divorcing them,” says David Anstee, family law expert at KWW. “This is a daunting but important step,

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Parental responsibility: The key points

Families now come in all shapes and sizes, and children may live with parents who are cohabiting, married, separated or divorced. They may be part of a step-family, live with adoptive parents, grandparents, other relatives or a special guardian. If you have spent many years living with and developing a close bond with a child,

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Duty of trustees to give information to beneficiaries

It can be flattering to be asked by a relative or close friend to be a trustee of their estate, but this is a role with important legal obligations and disputes can arise when beneficiaries do not agree with the actions of trustees. One such area of potential disagreement is the amount of information that

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Benefits of a clean-break agreement on divorce

You may feel overwhelmed with the changes you are facing as you go through a divorce, and quite often going from a household with two incomes to one can be a struggle. If you do not own a house or have other assets, it can be tempting to cut costs and ignore seeking advice from

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Changing a Will after someone has died

Sometimes the generosity of a friend or relative leaving you a gift in their Will can backfire if it turns out your estate will need to pay tax on it or if there is a chance it could be swallowed up in future care costs or in satisfying some other type of claim. It may also be the case that

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