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You will often receive correspondence within divorce proceedings or a financial offer marked ‘Without Prejudice’ and you may be wondering what this means. ‘Without Prejudice’ means ‘without loss of any rights’ and the...
One of the questions we are often asked, in cases involving sizeable pensions, is how they can be protected from a claim from a spouse upon separation. Pensions are generally treated a little differently to capital when looking at assets because, whilst a...
Assuming you have a registered marriage, the first question is whether or not you entered into a prenuptial agreement, or subsequent postnuptial agreement. Such agreements are now becoming much more common in a wide range of cases and are not limited to the...
Do I have a common law marriage? No, there is no such concept as a common law marriage. If you are not legally married, then regardless of the lengthy of your relationship, you have no right to a financial settlement via the family court. Child...
When looking at a financial settlement, all of the assets that you and your spouse own or have an interest in will for part of the ‘pot’ to be divided and that includes businesses whether they be sole trader, limited company or partnerships. As...
A common query raised by clients is a question about what it means legally to be a director of a company. This is particularly prevalent as the operational role of a director could differ greatly from business to business. However, whether you’re an...
Rooney v Leicester City - this one is about menopause discrimination, not football
Even though more and more women over 50 make up our workforce, there is still a lack of understanding as to how menopause affects an employee experiencing it. The recent case of Rooney v Leicester City Council demonstrated how the effects of menopause could...
We all know that we are living in a world of technology and social media and it seems that we are dying in that world too. There are now computer programmes that can create newspaper obituaries for people who have died by scanning their social media...
