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Divorce after 2 years separation – advice in a recession 2

Sep

2012

Divorce after 2 years separation – the reality is that year is in 2013, the recession has been with us since 2008 and thousands of nominally married couples have split up and are forced to live in the same house, because they cannot find anywhere to live that will not mean them living on the ...

70% of divorce financial matters dealt with by consent

Jul

2012

Statistics published by the Ministry of Justice for 2011 reveal that seventy percent of all divorce related financial applications were disposed of by consent without the need for a court hearing in the UK. In 2011 a total of 80,601 applications for ancillary relief were disposed of; an increase of 2 per cent from the ...

Muslim Doctor ordered to pay wife despite sharia argument

Jul

2012

A Muslim hospital consultant has been ordered by a British court to pay his ex-wife’s maintenance, despite the man arguing that by Sharia (Islamic) law he should not have to. Dr. Zaid al-Saffar was told by a judge that he must pay £60,000 ($94,249) to his former wife, academic Hanan al-Saffar and follow the “rule ...

Rich couple told they are peurile by High Court Judge

Jul

2012

A rich couple locked in a bitter row over the wife’s £26million divorce settlement are no better than spoilt, squabbling children, a judge claimed yesterday. Lord Justice Thorpe said Jennifer Evans’s dispute with her estranged husband Mark was ‘puerile’, warning them: ‘Somebody has to come into the nursery to make some rules.’ He also expressed ...

Divorce in Texas – How to make it cheaper than an attorney

Jun

2012

Getting divorce is a dramatic event in anybody’s life, so when you finally decide to put a failed marriage behind you, the last thing you want is to be fleeced in the process. Attorneys and lawyers provide a valuable service and have the knowledge which is needed to execute a divorce quickly and smoothly, but ...

Amicable divorces are on the increase in the UK

May

2012

The number of amicable divorces is on the increase as couples seek to reduce legal fees during the economic downturn, it emerged yesterday. Typical legal bills for divorce are now around £1,500, forcing warring couples to sit down and calmly work out how to divide their assets equally. Mark Keenan, founder and managing director of ...

Get a will after your divorce

Mar

2012

It is highly recommended that after Divorce you make a new Will, to ensure that following your change in circumstances, your precise wishes are correctly recorded. Each year, two thirds of all UK citizens who pass away do not have a valid Will, which increases the risk of their assets passing to an unintended recipient, ...

Translation of foreign marriage certificates

Mar

2012

We deal with a lot of people who were married abroad but want to conclude their divorce in England and Wales. Many of these people have marriage certificates that are not written in English and we have to advise clients that they will need the certificate translated into English and that translation needs to be ...

Quick divorce – we always hit our targets

Mar

2012

Here at Divorce-Online are always striving to make the divorce process as quick and painless as possible without sacrificing the quality of our service and I am pleased to report that our target of processing divorces within 14 -16 weeks has been easily beaten with the latest batch of cases due to complete in just ...