In what could represent a new frontier for the way that Schedule 1 (The Children Act 1989) applications are dealt with by the courts, DN v UD [2020] EWHC 627 (Fam) marks the first ever reported ...

The LexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 are officially open for entries, offering a platform to celebrate the very best of the UK’s ...

This article starts by exploring mental health among the UK population at large as measured by global surveys. Thereafter it focusses on the mental health picture presented by separating families ...

The Family Law Awards 2024 shortlist has been released, celebrating the exceptional talent and achievements within the family law community. This prestigious event will once again bring together the ...

Those working in the Family Justice system frequently encounter clients who present as vulnerable. Sheena Cassidy Hope and Kelly Gerrard examine the issues that practitioners are likely to face when ...

Family Law is now a publishing imprint of LexisNexis. Family Law will continue to produce the Family Law Awards, textbooks, looseleafs, journals and court reference works. Our flagship titles include: ...

Narcissism has increasingly been used as a term to describe anyone who demonstrates difficult or undesirable behaviour. In reality it is a very specific personality disorder which is capable of being ...

Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (MFPA) was enacted just over 40 years ago. The legislation empowered English Courts to provide financial relief to parties who had a ...

Service is an often ignored but critical subject for international family practitioners in every case. If service rules are not followed carefully, you run the risk of your client ending up divorced ...

Nearly 600 barristers, solicitors, judges, academics and other family law practitioners gathered in central London last night for the prestigious annual Family Law Awards. During the eighth edition of ...

In recent months there have been proposals to criminalise those conducting marriages that do not comply with the formalities laid down by law. However, it is important to understand what offences ...

A teenage Jehovah's Witness who was crushed in a car accident has died after refusing a blood transfusion in hospital. The schoolboy, aged 15, was airlifted to hospital from the incident in Smethwick, ...