High Court considers costs in surrogacy dispute
The circumstances surrounding an application for costs in a surrogacy dispute must be considered, a Family Court Judge has ruled. The surrogacy arrangement had been made by a former same sex couple....
View ArticleHigh Court unable to rule on parentage of surrogate baby
A man living in London cannot be declared the legal parent of a toddler born to surrogacy, the High Court has ruled. The case concerned a former same sex couple whose marriage had broken down. While...
View ArticleKenyan court ends photographers’ marriage after 3 years
Courts in Kenya can only end marriages formed abroad if the law of the country in which they were married is in accordance with local law. A judge in the East African nation made this declaration in...
View ArticleCalifornian couple celebrate 75th wedding anniversary
An elderly couple in California celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary this week. Anne and John Whitman married on June 13 1942 at the height of World War Two. They are now 95 and 102 years old...
View ArticleNew York likely to raise minimum age for marriage
Senators in New York state have unanimously approved a revised bill which would outlaw underage marriage. Currently children as young as 14 can marry with the permission of their parents and the local...
View ArticleNY wife refuses $1 billion divorce settlement
The wife of an extremely wealthy property developer in New York City has reportedly turned down a divorce settlement worth $1 billion. The 79 year-old real estate mogul was apparently willing to give...
View ArticleInfidelity more likely during travel abroad
People who visit other countries are more likely to be unfaithful to their partners, a new study suggests. Researchers from Columbia University in New York surveyed 215 students in relationships before...
View ArticleA litany of procedural defects
Sometimes it can be surprising just how far a case can stray from the procedural requirements designed to ensure fairness to the parties. I briefly mentioned the case Iqbal v Iqbal in my weekly review...
View ArticleBusinessman will not serve sentence for son’s divorce refusal
A Jewish businessman has escaped a prison sentence in Israel after allegedly encouraging his son to refuse a divorce. The man, in his 60s, lives in New York and is a member of the Orthodox Haredi...
View ArticleSame sex divorce can proceed, US court rules
A same sex couple can divorce in Pennsylvania, the State Superior Court has ruled after a lower court said it lacked the authority to end their union. Freyda Neyman and Florence Buckley entered a...
View ArticleNew Yorkers in festive rush to divorce
Divorce lawyers across New York state have reported a rush of couples seeking to divorce before the end of the month. Under local tax regulations, couples at loggerheads who complete their divorce by...
View ArticleFather punished for son’s divorce refusal
An American businessman has been punished in Israel following his son’s continuing refusal to divorce. The man is in his early sixties and runs a successful real estate company. He lives in New York,...
View ArticlePrince Harry & Meghan Markle: a divorce lawyer’s warning
The Times this morning splashed a tongue-in-cheek, light-hearted article across two of its pages entitled Meghan – how the royal family needs you. It’s just one of a series of pieces across the UK...
View ArticleOnly 13% of proposals ‘go as planned’
Only 13 per cent of marriage proposals go as they were originally planned, a new survey suggests. More than 500 married men from the UK, United States, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa...
View ArticleUS TV series Divorce begins next month
US cable channel HBO launches a new comedy focused on married life next month. With the self-explanatory title Divorce, the show stars Sarah Jessica Parker in her first lead role since popular...
View ArticleNY rabbi involved in divorce ‘murder plot’
An ultra-Orthodox rabbi in New York has been charged with plotting the kidnap and murder of a man refusing to grant his wife a divorce. The rabbi and another man were arrested on Tuesday as they put...
View ArticleThree cases, a Convention, and more
A week in family law There was not a lot of family law news, as the summer vacation continued, but three children cases in the news this week (although not necessarily decided this week) caught my eye....
View ArticleUnrelated adult can sue for custody, court rules
Adults who are neither related to children nor their adoptive parents can apply for the right to visit them or take on their care, a US court has ruled. The case concerned a female same sex couple from...
View ArticleCourt refuses return of three year-old to mother
A three year-old girl should not be sent back to New York to live with her mother, the High Court has ruled. The toddler was born in March 2013, following a brief but “intense” affair when her French...
View ArticleBachelor pads to order for divorced men
A newly established firm in New York offers divorced men a made to measure home furnishings and decorating service. The service is aimed principally at well-to- do newly divorced men moving into new...
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