The Government has launched an online wills archive. The archive will allow people to access and view the 41 million wills which are held in the database. Ordering a copy of an…

The ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released research which shows 76% of family cases now involve at least one party without representation. The statistics show that only 24% of cases involved both…

Legal experts have raised concerns over proposals for a ‘streamlined procedure’ for all Deprivation of Liberty (Dol) applications.  Due to the high number of expected applications, the President of the Court of…

Figures released by the Department for Education show adoptions in England and Wales rose by 26% in the year to March 2014.  Overall 5,050 looked after children were adopted.  The publication also…

Media agency OMD and Time Inc., a publishing firm have released results from research which looked at how families are evolving and changing with time. The research project, called Future of families,…

When court proceedings involve parents who cannot agree on which parent their child or children should live with or how the children’s time should be divided between parents Cafcass become involved. Cafcass…

Research commissioned by family law not for profit group Resolution has found that divorces are having a negative impact on UK workplaces.  The research was carried out to mark Family Dispute Resolution…

  The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published The Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014 on 18th November. The report looked at the entitlement and benefits of shared parental leave for couples…