Maintenance: Do Rights Come With Duties?
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Maintenance : Do Rights Come with Duties This is a sensitive family law area, which can be complex when parents and/or spouses are faced with relationship breakdown and are not aware of their rights or their duties. Who pays maintenance? There is a legal responsibility in Ireland on both spouses, to maintain each other, and on parents,
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Marriage Breakdown -When Your Marriage Does Not Last For As Long As You Both Shall Live
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Marriage Breakdown – the Options If you are faced with marriage breakdown, and the uncertainty that comes with it, it is important for you to know what options are available to you. Counselling and mediation to explore possible reconciliation or an amicable as possible separation should always be explored first. This is something your solicitor
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Who Keeps the Dog? Deciding the division of assets after divorce.
Friday, 29 January 2016
[soundcloud id=’242571659′] Who gets what? When going through a divorce, rational discussion about division of assets can be extremely difficult. If the divorcing couple cannot decide between themselves how best to split their assets, their solicitors can guide them through a mediation process. Of course, if that ultimately is not helpful, the courts are there
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Marriage Breakdown- Proper Provision Protecting Your Assets
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
When a couple separate or divorce how is it decided what assets each are entitled to? This can be done in two ways: By the parties agreeing between themselves as to what each will take from the assets available- If no agreement can be reached there are options like mediation may assist; If ultimately the
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Marriage Breakdown – Proper Provision – How Final Is Final?
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
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Marriage Breakdown- Proper Provision- How final is final?
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
What statistics do we have on the rate of separation and divorce in Ireland? Between 2006 and 2011 the number of married people in Ireland increased by nearly 10%, while the number of divorced people increased by more than 150% between 2002 – 2012, reflecting both a higher incidence of marriage breakdown and a greater
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Second bite in Divorce after “full and final” separation agreement
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Today I will continue with my monthly legal news brief by discussing a recent landmark case involving proper provision in divorce where there is a prior separation agreement. G. v G. involved a couple who married in 1977. They lived in a house which the husband inherited from his aunt and uncle. The wife had
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