9 of the most common divorce myths debunked After practising in family law for seven years, it occurs to me that a number of questions I am asked when I first meet with a new client are strikingly similar. In a generation of celebrity and social media, it comes as no surprise that divorces are…
We are pleased to announce that Grayfords’ Founder, Sheata Karim, has had an article published on The Divorce Magazine. The article is titled, ‘How to reduce the cost of divorce’, and offers Sheata’s expert knowledge of the financial divorce process. If you are currently going through a divorce and are looking to save some…
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 man has divorced his billionaire wife because he says that he was “uncomfortable” being rich. Tom Hawken, a former maths teacher met wife Xiu Li on a blind date. The couple married and lived in a modest semi-detached in South Norwood near Croyden. However, in 2011 a business venture in China that Mrs Hawken…
A millionaire’s daughter has branded English divorce law “a gold-digger’s charter”, after being ordered to pay her unemployed ex-husband £1.2 million. Victoria Luckwell, 37, is the daughter of the man behind The Moving Picture Company which invented Bob the Builder. He is worth an estimated £135 million. Her former husband, Frankie Limata, was awarded the large pay…
Lord Wilson of Culworth, a senior judge , has said that the breakdown of the nuclear family ‘may not be a bad thing’. Lord Wilson, who has been sitting in the Supreme Court since 2011, made the controversial comments during a speech to the Medico-Legal Society in Belfast. He lamented the high divorce rate, but said…
The 2 year 9 month itch has replaced the famous 7 year itch, a new study has shown. Couples today are more likely to break up sooner, with the average relationship length of those who took part in the survey being 2 years 9 months. The abundance of social media is being blamed for the…
IVF treatment is a notoriously stressful and lengthy process. A new study has shown that going through IVF treatment increases a couple’s risk of divorce by up to 300 percent. The research was carried out in Denmark and published in in the medical journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 47,515 women in their 30s who had…