Max Clifford’s wife is divorcing him after he was convicted for sex offences against teenage girls. Jo and Max Clifford married in 2010 after she spent a period of time as his PA. Clifford, 71, became the first person to be sent to jail as part of Scotland Yard’s Operation Yewtree investigation, when on May…
Sir James Munby has suggested that divorce should be taken out of Judges’ hands. The President of the Family Division made the comments at a Judicial Office Press Conference on the 29th April while discussing the administration of divorce. During the press conference Munby discussed the possibility of moving towards a system in which judges…
Bernie Ecclestone received £300 million from his ex-wife as part of their divorce settlement. Most mutli-millionaires are concerned about how much maintenance they have to pay their ex-wife when they get divorced. This doesn’t seem to have been a worry for Bernie Ecclestone, the founder of F1, who appears to be the best kept man…
The withdrawal of legal aid in many family cases has meant that volunteer groups such as the McKenzie friend scheme are becoming increasingly popular. Plans are under way to create new advice centres where law students will assist divorcing couples by guiding them through the divorce process. The scheme is to be introduced as part…
A man who agreed to pay his wife £60,000 a month after a divorce has told a judge that “he was not wearing his glasses” when he signed the agreement and did not know how much it was for. The man, who is in his 60s, is said to be from an Arabic country and…
A new study has shown that using twitter and other social networking sites can be linked to relationship conflict and divorce. 581 Twitter users took part in the survey which was carried out by Russell Clayton, a researcher at the University of Missouri. Each participant was asked if their use of social media had effected…
Liam Gallagher and All Saints singer Nicole Appleton were granted a ‘quicky’ divorce this week. The celebrity couple who were married for 5 years and together for 13 years were granted a divorce in just 68 seconds at a family court in London. Appleton N M v Gallagher L J P was the second in…
A husband who slaughtered his wife’s pet ram after a heated argument has been ordered to pay her £170,000 a year by a family judge. The husband, 68, and his 70-year-old wife owned a large property portfolio, including a £15 million house in Camden, London. They had been married for over 40 years. After a…
Statistics show that Birmingham has the busiest divorce court in England and Wales. 2,655 couples filed for divorce at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre and Family Courts, the highest number of divorces filed at any court in the UK. Courts in Birmingham, Weston-super-mare and Coventry head the list released by the government last week, followed by…
A Lesbian couple are involved in a custody battle over twin girls that were conceived when one of the women donated her eggs to the other. The twin girls are now 5 years old and live with the birth mother after the couple separated in 2012. At Portsmouth County Court last August, Judge Helen Black,…