October tax return deadline looms
Anyone sending in their 2009/10 Self Assessment return on paper has just a few days left to file their return by the 31 October paper-filing deadline.
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Planning on setting up home together and want to make sure your assets are safe? Our team will help providing a full range of pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements to suit your needs. We are also experienced in dealing with issues surrounding relationship breakdown and can advise on cohabitation disputes, including pre-nuptial agreement enforcement.
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For those of you who thought only Boris Karloff had that kind of reach, check out mutual wills.
This is a device of long lineage, first noted judicially in 1769 (the same year the last wild wolf...
Common law spouse – ever more common misconception
It has never really been understood by the majority of people out there that the phrase ‘common law husband’ or ‘common law wife’ really has no meaning in law. I still hear from people under the...
Cohabitation or second marriage?
In the past, it has always been clear that former wives who continue to receive ongoing maintenance from their former husbands should not remarry, but should instead cohabit. The reason? If remarried,...
Joint Ownership and Avoiding Costly Mistakes
The case of Leonard Kernott v Patricia Jones (2010) EWCA Civ 578 is another timely reminder that those purchasing property jointly should give consideration as to how the property should be held prior...
Property Co-owners – You have been warned (again)!
Short of tatooing on foreheads, the Court of Appeal judgment handed down in Jones v Kernott [2010] EWCA Civ 578, represents the best reminder of the law relating to joint ownership of property, most commonly applicable...
How to avoid divorce? Housework, possibly
For those of us marrieds who, instinctively, have always relished our share of the household chores as essential to a happy home, statistical support appeared recently to hand. Dr Wendy Sigle-Rushton...
A vindictive politician – surely not?
The Times reported (March 4, 2010) that the office of President of the Family Division, the head of the family justice system, due to fall vacant in a month's time, has yet to be filled by the relevant...
Without prejudice – what does it mean?
When issues arise between parties that fall to be settled in or around courts and lawyers, correspondence often bears a "Without Prejudice" heading, but what does that mean?
The short answer, given...
Two’s company?
An ex wife's claim to a life interest and exclusive right to occupy a property was dismissed. Despite having agreed not to contest her divorce and in lieu of an order for ancillary relief, when the former...
