Does the law on predatory marriage need to change?
In recent years there have been calls for a change in the law to protect vulnerable adults from falling victim to what has become known as “predatory marriage”. This is due to a rise in cases where fraudsters have married vulnerable and often elderly individuals, without the knowledge of their loved ones, and are then […]
Marriage rates continue to fall
Latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that marriages are decreasing and couples are getting older. ONS figures for marriages in 2018 show that there were 234,795 marriages in England and Wales; a decrease of 3.3% compared with 2017 and the lowest since 2009. Marriage rates for opposite-sex couples were also the lowest on […]
