70+ years
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70+ years
of legal expertise

Category: Family

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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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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Busting the myths of cohabitation

Unmarried couples are not offered the same protection as married couples and civil partners. Cohabiting couples often assume that moving in together creates similar rights and responsibilities as marriage (so-called ‘common-law marriage’) or absolutely no rights at all. Both beliefs are wrong. If you are moving in together, or you are the parent of someone

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