A prenuptial agreement is made between the couples who are thinking about marriage. A pre nuptial agreement provides the opportunity to the couples to settle their financial issues before entering into marriage. A pre – nup agreement minimizes the disputes and apprehensions between the parties. The pre nup agreement must have been drawn up at least 21 days prior to the marriage. A pre – nup agreement supports the matrimonial relation because marriage is not [...]

It is the entirely matter of choice of the parties to get divorce or not. Some time the partners want to keep the relation but do not like to end a relationship by way of divorce. Some time parties want to end the relationship by way of divorce but the legal requirements create the hurdles i.e. in Eng and Wales to get a divorce you must be legally married for at least one year. A [...]

It is the statutory right of every pregnant employee to take the statutory maternity leave (SML) with out the fear of discrimination, dismissal, redundancy. The employment law and now Equality Act 2010 make it unlawful to deter and dismiss an employee on grounds of statutory maternity leave. Employment law provides the special right to employees if they are made redundant during the statutory maternity leave. The employee can take the statutory maternity leave by notifying [...]

Before getting a decree absolute, you must have applied to the court for a divorce and got your ‘decree nisi’.  When the court gives you a ‘decree nisi’, this means that court does not see any reason why you cannot divorce.  You need to get a decree absolute to complete your divorce. A decree absolute is the legal document that ends your marriage.   Once you have a decree absolute: you are divorced ; no [...]

You can only divorce if your marriage has ‘irretrievably broken down’. You will need to prove this to the court by giving the reasons your marriage has ended. These are known as ‘facts’ for divorce. When you can get divorced. To file for divorce, you and your husband or wife will need to: have been married for at least a year; have a marriage that is legally recognised in the UK ; show that your [...]

There are five types of grounds that you can use in divorce proceedings. A. Adultery Adultery is sexual activity with someone else that you choose. Any sexual activity that you have been forced into; whether you are a man or a woman, is not adultery as you were not willing. Rape is therefore not adultery. You can use adultery as a ground for divorce if all of the following apply: your husband or wife has [...]

A new deal for the pets of divorcing couples is on the cards after a landmark settlement, reports Maureen Mullally. Divorce lawyers are speculating about a recent award of £50,000 a year to a wife for the maintenance of her three horses. Will this mean that in future divorcing wives will be entitled to claim periodical payments for their pets, as they do now for their children? The award was part of a £1.5m settlement [...]

‘Copyright Telegraph.co.uk’ Pre-nuptial agreements were given significant recognition in English law for the first time yesterday after a wealthy German heiress won a landmark legal battle with her former husband. Three Appeal Court judges ruled that the assets of Katrin Radmacher – a paper industry heiress said to be worth £100 million – should be protected from her French ex-husband because of the pre-nuptial contract they signed before they married. In yesterday’s landmark ruling, Mr [...]