Blogs & opinions
- in the category: family-child law
Service on a four year old? The purpose of form F9
Appeal Court appoints reporter to take child's views instead
Unravelling a decree granted in ignorance but not error
Application for recall, rather than appeal, is correct procedure
No permanence order where kinship not fully considered
Sheriff attacks reliance on expert evidence on proposed carer
Children held to have new habitual residence in Germany
Order granted for return following removal to Scotland
Fairness still the test where both cohabitees wealthy
£912,000 award made to partner in legal firm
Sheriff goes with usage in child surname dispute
Both parents’ names adopted where both already in use
Non-parentage order refused despite absence of forms
Sheriff holds clinic lost forms signed by both parties
Should council have appealed permanence order refusal?
Court’s criticism contrasts with approach in English decision
No expenses awarded despite permanence order refusal
Authority entitled to act on report discredited at proof
Financial agreement without legal advice held not unfair
Sheriff Appeal Court upholds parties' freedom of contract
Limits to party's obligations on pension sharing, sheriff holds
Incidental order as way of overcoming liquidity problem refused
Law of accession does not determine matrimonial assets: sheriff
Home built on non-matrimonial plot should be valued separately