child arrangements – Law Journals

In practice: Are we doing enough?

Claire Molyneux asks whether there is more that can be done to support separating families and minimise the impact on children, potentially by the introduction of a family lawyers’ charter The idea of a family lawyers’ charter is to support family lawyers themselves, in the sense of providing a reflective type of anchor for both …

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Private children: An exception to the rule

Rebecca Viola and Aimee Jones analyse the court’s approach in a case where various draconian orders were sought in relation to a father and the court’s reasons for making those orders In D v E, any decision in favour of promoting contact, or maintaining the father’s parental responsibility, would be a significant change of circumstances …

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Tax: Planning for the future in the present

Rosalind Fitzgerald and Sofia Thomas discuss the practicalities of ‘nesting’ child arrangements and the tax issues that may arise In a nesting arrangement, if both parties are going to utilise the second home for some time, it may well make sense to transfer the property into joint names, so that the annual CGT exemption for …

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