Family Law

Dame Jill Black DBE is a High Court Judge of the Family Division. She was previously a lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University and is also a co-author of A Practical Approach to Family Law Jane Bridge is a Barrister, a family mediator (UKCFM) and co-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Family Law Act 1996 and A Practical Approach to Family Law Tina Bond is a practising Solicitor and a Senior Lecturer in family law at the University of Northumbria. She is co-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Family Law Act 1996 and A Practical Approach to Family Law

GENERAL MATTERS; 1. The first interview; 2. Community legal service fund and public funding for family proceedings; 3. Civil Partnerships; DIVORCE: THE DECREE; 4. The ground for divorce and the five facts; 5. Bar on presentation of divorce petitions within one year of marriage; 6. Jurisdiction in divorce; 7. Drafting a divorce petition; 8. Undefended divorce: procedure for obtaining the decree; 9. Amended, supplemental, and new petitions; 10. Protection of respondents in separation cases: ss. 5 and 10, Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; ANCILLARY RELIEF AFTER DIVORCE; 11. Ancillary relief orders available; 12. Procedure for ancillary relief applications; 13. Factors to be considered on ancillary relief applications; 14. Child Support Acts 1991 and subsequent amendments; 15. Preventing and setting aside dispositions under s. 37, Matrimonial Causes Act 1973; 16. Collection and Enforcement of ancillary relief orders; 17. Variation of ancillary relief orders; FINANCIAL PROVISION AND PROPERTY DURING MARRIAGE; 18. Financial provision and property during marriage; 19. Separation and maintenance agreements; TAXATION; 20. Tax considerations; WELFARE BENEFITS; 21. Welfare benefits; OCCUPATION ORDERS AND NON-MOLESTATION ORDERS: PART IV OF THE FAMILY LAW ACT 1996; 22. Occupation orders and non-molestation orders: Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996; GENERAL MATTERS CONCERNING THE HOME AND OTHER PROPERTY; 23. The home: preventing a sale or mortgage; 24. Establishing an interest in property - section 17, Married Women's Property Act 1882 amd the law relating to constructive and resulting trusts; 25. The question of wills; CHILDREN; 26. The Children Act 1989 - the section 8 orders and general principles; 27. Procedures for obtaining a section 8 order; 28. Preventing the removal of a child from the jurisdiction; 29. Children in local authority care; 30. Emergency protection of children; COHABITANTS; 31. The Human Cohabitants; THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998; 32. The Human Rights Act 1998 and its impoact on family law