Wednesday December 29, 2010 at 10:00am
Car insurance can be a pain. More often than not, when the renewal notice drops through the door, it’s gone up from last time.
In years gone by, the car, your house and your house contents were all you really needed to worry about insuring. These days however, there are policies for everything - the dog, the sofa, your teeth, credit cards, your wedding. In that kind of company, divorce insurance doesn’t seem so strange maybe.
Divorce insurance, of course, started in the USA but....
Wednesday December 22, 2010 at 4:45pm
It’s not often I am shocked but this week there was an exception. A colleague excitedly emailed to say I was on Wikipedia. Now, I have used Wikipedia plenty of times before. I find it a very useful reference tool for everything from who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films, to explanations of complicated jargon. I also know that anyone can contribute to it. I had no idea I was on it though. I am not one of those people who periodically Googles themselves to find out what is on the i....
Wednesday December 22, 2010 at 10:50am
They saved the most revealing poll of the year until almost the end. What causes the biggest family arguments at Christmas? You could have arguments over what should top the list! But the survey says it is “who has control of the remote control.” Am pretty sure this is high on the list whatever the time of year – something for life, not just for Christmas. Mums stressing over the Christmas dinner came second, while tiffs over no one helping her in the kitchen took third spot in....
Wednesday December 15, 2010 at 4:40pm
In the build up to this year’s election, each party had something to say, to a greater or lesser extent, about family matters. For some it was at the heart of a number of manifesto points. For others, it was a footnote that had to be mentioned but was not high on their political agenda. Fast forward seven months and not a lot is any clearer. There had been talk about new benefits/tax breaks for married couples but that has gone quiet of late. We are still (yawn) waiting for the Family Just....
Friday December 10, 2010 at 11:33am
I’m not sure if I had a specific size in mind for Woolley & Co when I set sail in her 14 years ago. I am an ambitious person but I had no plan to make it the biggest firm in the world. The best, maybe, but not the biggest! We welcomed our newest
family law solicitor, Luci Larkin, this month. Including me, that means we now have a roster of 21 senior level lawyers specialising in family law. All work from home offices around the country rather than in one centralised high street office.....
Tuesday December 7, 2010 at 5:23pm
There is no escaping Christmas now. As I said last week, the Christmas tress/lights/ads/CDs/TV shows have well and truly been unwrapped by Great Britain and are here to stay – for the next few weeks at least. In previous years, Woolley & Co has tended to give advice and pointers to people about how to deal with the extra pressures this time of years brings, hopefully with the aim of ensuring a few people think twice before engaging a
divorce lawyer in early January. As we all now know,....
Friday December 3, 2010 at 2:31pm
I blogged a few weeks ago about a wonderful resource from Cafcass called the Separated Parents Information Programme. This programme and its accompanying brochure is a mine of information on a range of issues, mostly but not exclusively related to children and how they are affected by separation.
Among the many topics covered is that of family mediation and whether or not it is a viable alternative to court. I thought it was a good issue to pick up on bearing in mind the Family Justice R....
Wednesday December 1, 2010 at 2:22pm
When the cold weather sets in for good as it has done in the last week, my mind turns to one of two things: Christmas or living somewhere warmer. I was doing quite well at avoiding all signs of Christmas until a couple of Mondays ago and then it was like someone had “switched on Christmas”. The songs of the radio, the ads on the TV, the food in the supermarkets, suddenly Christmas was here. And the cold snap, as the papers like to say, has compounded that feeling. It is all a slipper....