Valentine’s Day isn’t just a great excuse to indulge in ruinously expensive red roses, cards and heart-shaped chocolates. It’s also a reminder that if you’re in a cohabitation arrangement, there will be financial implications – making it essential to check that your relationship’s legal aspects pass muster. Particularly when you start acquiring high-value assets jointly,...Read More

One wonders how many people trapped in unhappy marriages are put off applying for divorce by fear of what it will cost them. But there’s no need for that. An uncontested divorce needn’t cost much at all. And if a fight is inevitable and one party uses their financial strength to intimidate the other into...Read More

As our annual Wedding Season kicks off, happy couples should add to their wedding plans a note on choosing surname/s. Long gone are the days when women were forced to adopt their husbands’ family names. Although women have been able to choose surnames for years, the same right has not been extended to husbands and...Read More

Divorce is inevitably a time of emotional upheaval, which in a worst-case scenario can escalate into one or both spouses digging trenches and settling into a campaign of relentless “lawfare”. What can you do if you are in that situation, subjected to a full-on “Stalingrad defence” strategy of endless court applications, threats and blackmail? Let’s...Read More

Divorce is one of life’s most stressful events, and the process can seem overwhelming. But it needn’t be a legal nightmare. Read on for a simple infographic showing how it all works – all the way from coming to us for advice through to leaving court with your divorce granted. We’ll also address nine of...Read More