This course will provide you, as a busy family practitioner, with a comprehensive update to all aspects of family case law, practice and procedure over the last 18 months, including Financial Orders, Children - Private and Public Law, Adoption, Divorce, Cohabitation, the new Family Procedure Rules 2010 and all recent Practice Directions. The course will provide you with a greater awareness of current authorities in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court and relate these decisions to the cases and clients coming through your office door.
Divorce
- * Jurisdictional and validity issues
Forced Marriages
- * Financial Orders/Ancillary Relief
- Pre and Post Nuptial Agreements – The impact of Radmacher
- Pre and Post separation assets
- Inherited wealth – included or excluded?
- Cohabitation Fleming and Grey
- Re-opening awards – what is possible
- Confidentiality between Husband and Wife - Imerman
Procedure
- * The new Family Procedure Rules 2010
Private CA
- * PR
- Residence and shared residence
- Contact problems
- Contact activity directions and the new enforcement provisions
- Removal from the jurisdiction - when will it be granted or refused
Cohabitation
- * Who owns the house? – case law after Stack v Dowden and Jones v Kernott
- Schedule 1 CA applications
Domestic Violence
Public CA
- * ICOs
- Fact-finding developments
- Expert evidence
- Sexual abuse
- Assessment update
- Spotlight on LA procedures
Special Guardianship
Adoption
- * Revocation of placement orders
- Adoption Orders – revocation, consent and international issues