Oral fluid (saliva) drug testing is classified as a ‘narrow-window’ (short-term) testing method, meaning it can be used to ...

Family Rights Group is proud to launch ‘A film for parents with learning difficulties and disabilities: working with a child and family social worker.’ This much needed resource, created with and for ...

Rhona Schuz is Senior lecturer and joint director of the Centre for the Rights of the Child and the Family at the Shaarei Mishpat Law College in Israel and a visiting lecturer in the Law Faculty of ...

MON 01/03/2010 - The Legal Services Commission has opened the tender process for 2010 civil legal aid contracts in family (including family mediation) and social welfare. The current contracts come to ...

In Re G (Residence: Same Sex Partners) [2005] 2 FLR 957, the parties had cohabited in a same-sex relationship for 8 years, during which time the respondent gave birth to two children conceived by ...

The Work and Pensions Committee Child Maintenance Service (CMS) inquiry was published today, following its launch in July 2016. The resulting report concluded that the ideal outcome for separated ...

The Law Society has published a devastating critique of LASPO (Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012), which slashed civil and family legal aid. In a report published this week, ...

Currently unmarried couples have no right in law to claim ownership of each other’s property on relationship breakdown. This should be well known but there are still misunderstandings amongst many ...

Pensions are often one of the most significant assets in divorce and financial proceedings. Happily, the law provides that pensions may be divided between divorcing spouses by virtue of a pension ...

Third party interventions have been relatively rare in the Chitty, 1834 'The Practice of Law', at 497-498). An early explanation of the practice can be found in Dalrymple v Dalrymple (1811): ‘The ...

The family law reforms are two working days away. The volume of material for family law professionals to read and digest is huge and the Children and Families Act 2014 is a biggie at 241 pages long.