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Although the exact details of the Court of Appeal’s decision concerning Mr Vaughan are not yet available, the press reports suggest that this case will strike terror into the hearts of ex-husbands and second wives.
Equalities Minister Harriet Harman commented recently on a report by the National Equality Panel. The report found that women earn significantly less than men. Inevitably this also means that they have significantly less in the way of pension provision when they reach retirement age.
A recent survey by The Children’s Society reports that whilst family breakup makes children unhappy in the short term, after a year, children whose parents separated were happier than children whose parents did not get on well together.
One of the questions that we are sometimes asked is whether a divorce can be stopped or 'cancelled' prior to the decree being made absolute.
The answer to this question is an unconditional YES; divorce can be stopped provided that both parties agree.
If you reconcile at any stage, even after the pronouncement of the decree nisi, you can ask the Court to rescind the decree and dismiss the petition. The effect of this, from a legal point of view, is as if the petition had never been issued.
As family lawyers people come to us at an intensely traumatic time in their lives and reveal to us their most fundamental concerns about their relationship, their children's futures and their financial worries. I hope that, as well as highlighting developments in the law on this Blog, by discussing, in very general terms, some of the concerns that we are asked about from time to time, it will be reassuring to anyone reading to realise that many of their concerns are shared by others in the same situation.
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