Old Blog Posts: April 2009

The CSA, known and "beloved" of many has a new name! Will people now change to calling it the CMEC?!But there are many changes of real substance. There are now CMEC guidelines for calculation of child support also called child maintenance and also a new method of calculating child support to be brought in 2011. Their website makes a useful very quick read for what is happening with child support between now and 2011, all of which should be borne in mind now. Karen Agnew-GriffithS....

An article in the Mail Online today suggests that someone has marriage problems as it seems they feel their wife does not bother any more about their appearance. The headline is a little provocative--I hope she doesn't realise it is her husband who has written in! But we all need to take care of ourselves, don't we? It is only fair to our partners, surely? Probably a failure to do so could be regarded as unreasonable behaviour under divorce law. I know I have suddenly decided to lose 2 stone in ....

The BBC has published an article by Paula Hall, a family and relationship therapist we know well here at Woolley & Co. It looks at possible ways of making the separation just that little bit easier to bear. We are not experts in that of course, but we have tried to help by publishing these articles: 6-Point Plan for an Amicable Divorce Tips for Controlling the Costs of Divorce 6 Steps to Take Before you Call a Divorce Lawyer It may help to say that the headings of our first article are these....

I read that Madonna's latest attempt to adopt a child from Malawi has been rejected--for now--by a Judge. There is something distasteful about her adoption habit, is there not? There are many children in the UK who are not adopted despite many people thinking that would be best, probably including the children themselves. The reasons can be many and are often more complex than at first glance but watch out if you are overweight, over 40--sometimes younger--not from an appropriate race etc. Peopl....

I have posted a Blog before referring to the Myerson case where the credit crunch apparently caused a--roughly--£8million change in the amount the husband expected to get after paying out his ex wife. The Court has just decided that this is not enough of a change to justify altering the original Court Order. It seems that the main basis of this decision was that it was always the case he would keep his shares in his company and he still will, albeit it seems to be worth £millions les....