Employment Rights Act 2025: Key Changes and What Employers Need to Know as Reforms Take Effect
The Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025. It amends the law relating to employment rights to enhance employee protections, bringing major changes throughout 2026 and 2027. With key provisions now in force and further reforms due to take effect throughout 2026 and 2027, our Employment Lawyers outline the...
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Child Arrangements During The Christmas Period
Whilst it may be the most wonderful time of the year for many, for separated couples Christmas provides the opportunity for heated disputes over which parent the child should spend Christmas Day with causing inevitable distress for both the child and extended family members. Resolution, an organisation of 6,500 legal professionals who are...
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Shared Parental Leave – Are men entitled to the same pay as women on maternity leave?
If you’re having a baby or adopting a child, you and your partner may be able to get Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay. You can share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay between you in the first year after your child is born or placed with your family. You can also choose to be off work together or to stagger...
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Divorce Consent Orders - What You Need To Know
A Consent Order is the single most important document that any divorcing couple are likely to sign. The agreement will cover what is to happen with their financial assets. A Consent Order is a legally binding document between two people who have agreed to divorce and separate their financial assets. A Consent Order puts in writing everything that...
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Single Parent Surrogacy
Single parents who have had a child born through surrogacy can now apply for parental orders and obtain a UK birth certificate. This means that they can become recognised as the child’s legal parent, extinguishing any rights and responsibilities of the surrogate. Previously, only couples were eligible to apply. To deal with this discrimination...
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Fraud in Divorce - is your ex crying poverty?
When going through divorce, full and frank disclosure is an essential element upon which financial negotiations and proceedings are based. For there to be a fair settlement, all assets and income need to be identified and valued. Occasionally, personal motives can mean that one party might overstate or understate asset values and/or income, or...
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Co-Parents find each other online
More and more individuals are using the internet and more specifically, co-parenting websites, to locate others to conceive a child with them. Usually, via artificial insemination. Websites such as Co-Parents.co.uk, Co-ParentMatch.com and PollenTree.com specialise in introducing couples who can’t or haven’t had the opportunity of conceiving...
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Marriage versus Civil Partnerships
Prime Minister, Theresa May, has announced that opposite sex couples will be allowed to enter civil partnerships as an alternate to getting married, a right only previously awarded to same sex couples. Civil partnerships have been open to same sex couples since 2005. Marriage has been open to same sex couples since 2014. The new laws will end an...
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Drug and Alcohol Misuse In The Family
Drug and alcohol misuse is a complex issue. When someone is misusing or suffering from addiction, not only does it have a vast negative impact on their own life, it affects everyone around them. Those who misuse or are addicted may suffer from depression or struggle to control their emotions, find it difficult to hold down a job or perform...
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Variation of spousal maintenance
The Supreme Court has considered an application to vary a periodical payments order (otherwise known as spousal maintenance) in the recent case of Mills v Mills [2018] UKSC 38. The parties had been married for 13 years and had one child. They had enjoyed a good standard of living during the marriage, largely due to the husband’s financial...
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Departure from equal sharing of assets on divorce in cases with a high net worth
It is clear from case law that the court will apply the ‘sharing principle’ as a starting point where there is sufficient capital to meet parties’ needs, to divide all marital assets equally, unless there is good reason to depart from equality. Marital assets include all property built up during the relationship, irrespective of the proportions...
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Questions to ask a divorce solicitor on first meeting
Seeing a divorce lawyer for the first time can feel like a daunting and overwhelming experience, especially when you are likely to be feeling stressed and emotional, and it can be difficult to know what you should say. Everybody’s case is different, but below are some of the questions that you may want to ask your divorce lawyer at your first...
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