In financial remedy proceedings, the starting point in respect of costs is that each party bears their own legal costs and is not required to contribute to the other party’s costs. However, this may not be the case if one party does not co-operate with negotiations in an effort to agree a financial settlement. In
Each party has a duty to provide to the other party full, frank and clear disclosure of facts, information and documents as part of financial remedy proceedings, to enable the parties to negotiate and try to reach an agreement. When the parties reach the final hearing in financial remedy proceedings, the judge will be making
If you are separating from your spouse, civil partner or partner and you are encountering some difficulties when trying to reach an agreement, you may decide to try mediation as a way to resolve your issues without resorting to court proceedings. Both you and the other person will separately have an initial meeting with a
Child arrangements orders When you are going through a divorce, separation, or your civil partnership is coming to an end, it may be difficult to agree the arrangements for your children to have contact with each parent. If you are unable to agree, you may need to make an application to the court for a
If you have children and separate from their other parent, you will hopefully be able to reach an agreement about how much money they contribute towards your children’s everyday living costs if they continue living with you. If you are unable to reach an agreement about maintenance, you can apply to the Child Maintenance Service
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) advises the court in contested family cases in English courts. If you make an application to the court for a child arrangements order, the court will ask Cafcass to get involved and it will do the following: Undertake police and local authority checks against you
You can apply for a non-molestation order to prevent a person, who is called the Respondent, from molesting you or a relevant child. Non-molestation orders are often used to protect a person from violence, harassment and threats. You can usually apply for a non-molestation order against someone who is “associated” with you. This will apply
With effect from 6th May we will be resuming a telephone reception service. All calls to both Solihull and Dorridge offices will be routed to Solihull where they will be answered by a member of our administration staff. As the vast majority of our staff continue to work from home, anyone who wishes to
Our first priority is to protect our staff and clients whilst endeavouring to continue to provide a quality service to our clients. Our offices are now closed. Many of our staff are working from home. We will continue to support you with legal work and can be contacted by email in the first instance. (see
Team WRM and friends successfully completed the hotly anticipated Three Peaks Challenge on 22/23 June. A team of us here at WRM had been training hard for the challenge since December completing many practice walks up Pen-Y-Fan, Kinder Scout and the Malverns to name a few. As one of our many training walks in May,
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