Pub­li­ca­tions

Nov 16, 2022

Are Prenups the height of romance? Rethink­ing Bind­ing Finan­cial Agreements

When peo­ple think about ​‘romance’, they tend to imag­ine things like can­dle­light, flow­ers, oys­ters, cham­pagne. Well, con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, I believe that Bind­ing Finan­cial Agree­ments should be bumped up the list. Whilst the ​‘brand­ing’ of BFA’s may need a lit­tle mar­ket­ing rework, they are, at their core, a deeply lov­ing and roman­tic document…

Oct 12, 2022

Are We; Aren’t We? Deter­min­ing whether a De Fac­to rela­tion­ship exists

As soci­ety and our views about mod­ern rela­tion­ships change, we have seen few­er peo­ple rush­ing to the alter, with many hap­py to tack­le life side by side as De Fac­to part­ners. Whilst for mar­ried cou­ples there is lit­tle dif­fi­cul­ty prov­ing the exis­tence of a mar­riage (with the help of a Mar­riage Cer­tifi­cate)…

Apr 22, 2022

Use of Audio and Video Record­ings in Fam­i­ly Law cases

It’s no secret that we are glued to our smart­phones. Thanks to tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments, we have a ​‘one stop shop’ device at our fin­ger­tips, which includes access to audio and video recordings. For many years, Fam­i­ly Lawyers have been pre­sent­ed with secret record­ings tak­en by clients in the hopes that the…

Apr 14, 2022

Pause before you Post – How social media can impact your Fam­i­ly Law matter

Irre­spec­tive of your feel­ings about social media – it is here to stay. In today’s social media world ​‚it seems that there is so lit­tle that we tru­ly keep pri­vate. We’ve nev­er been more con­nect­ed or had a wider plat­form to share each of our inti­mate thoughts how­ev­er, whilst some of…