Ahead of the Queen’s Speech, Suzi Denton, Family Law expert at Irwin Mitchell comments on the much needed Cohabitation Rights Bill. According to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Rights of Cohabiting Partners, there are over 3.4m unmarried couples living together in England and Wales, making cohabitation the fastest growing family set-up. Many of these couples […]Read More

No Fault Divorce is finally here. As of 6th April, divorcing couples no longer need to have either been separated for the requisite period of time, or for one party to blame the other for the breakdown of the marriage. The new rules also apply to civil partnership dissolutions. Under the old law, where a […]Read More