Tracy McVeigh - The Observer, Sunday 29 January 2012 The number of British fathers giving up work to look after their children is growing, but policy makers are still failing to understand the phenomenon Edmund Farrow is facing redundancy. For 11 years he has worked up to 90 hours a week, looking after Matthew,...
Keep readingAdoption lawyers have seen the level of adoption in the UK fall to an all time low. In 2010/11, a total of 60 babies were adopted. This figure alone is alarmingly low, but when you take into account that those 60 babies adopted were out a total of 3,050, it becomes even more tragic. At the moment a child will spend on average 2.7 years in care b...
Keep readingEvery year in January divorce lawyers are at their busiest. Many clients who have had an entirely miserable Christmas march into lawyers offices, determined to end their unhappiness by separating or divorcing. Such are the numbers that they almost compete with the January sales. However, one common theme that rears its head every year is the impact...
Keep readingThis morning, divorce solicitor Vanessa Lloyd Platt, made an appearance on the BBC breakfast show to discuss the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data on divorce in the UK. With the government's ongoing austerity measures and the current turbulence in the financial markets there is little doubt about the pressures of modern life and t...
Keep readingBy Vanessa Lloyd Platt The case of Kernott v Jones whose judgement was given in the Supreme Court today will have a huge impact for cohabiting couples. For many years practitioners like myself have been campaigning for the rights of cohabiting parties and in particular women with children to be improved. The public perception is that there is...
Keep readingContrary to what the Government would have us believe regarding divorce rates, the numbers of people seeking to divorce at this time has increased dramatically in the last year. According to the office of National Statistics divorce rates have fallen but these statistics are based on figures for 2009 since which time the economic decline has had a...
Keep reading23/07/2011 - By Anil Dawar A Russian billionaire has been hit with the biggest divorce settlement in history after a judge awarded his ex-wife a payout thought to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds. Oil tycoon Boris Berezovsky, 65, agreed to the payout at the High Court in London yesterday, exactly a year after divorcing Galina Besha...
Keep reading23/07/2011 - Tamara Cohen It wasn’t the most sensitive way to announce the end of a 21-year marriage. But yesterday Sainsbury’s boss Justin King was forced to broadcast his divorce to the Stock Exchange with the transfer of 2million of shares to his ex-wife Claire. He said in a statement: ‘Justin King no longer holds a beneficial int...
Keep readingWHY I SAY YES TO SUPER INJUNCTIONS BY VANESSA LLOYD PLATT As a Divorce Lawyer whose career has spanned over thirty years I have watched with interest as the argument of whether or not the right to private life should be protected versus the right of the public to know or the freedom of Press to report. The argument appears to be by the Press that ...
Keep readingBy Vanessa Lloyd Platt Divorce Lawyer With ever increasing divorce cases coming before the Courts, the lack of Judges and lack of court time the system has been grinding to a halt. Like every area of public services, the court system has been and will continue to be hit by Government cuts. Legal Aid funding has virtually disappeared under this ...
Keep readingSuggestions for the Royal Pre-nup By Vanessa (there goes my peerage) Lloyd Platt With rumours swirling around media corridors that the Royal Couple may have entered into a prenuptial agreement prior to their wedding on 29th April, divorce lawyers, Lloyd Platt & Co have had an amusing look at what the Couple may have put in their prenuptial ...
Keep readingLloyd Platt & Co are known for innovation and in addition to our Divorce Legal Advice Vouchers our latest offer is Prenuptial Gift Vouchers for Valentines Day. Prenuptial Agreements are very much in the news and have recently gained much stronger legal acceptability under English law. There has never been a better or more practical time to hav...
Keep readingBy Vanessa Lloyd Platt - Divorce Lawyer This week we heard from the Pet Rescue Service how animals feel torn apart by divorce. The wholeissue of animals in divorce is becoming an ever increasing factor for us divorce lawyers to consider anddeal with. In the first instant we have a raft of cases where animals have been or are the cause of the mar...
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