Prof David Hodson OBE MICArb is a co-founder and partner at The International Family Law Group LLP, London.
He is an English solicitor, arbitrator and mediator and also an Australian qualified solicitor, and sits as a part-time family court judge at the Central Family Court. He is an Accredited Specialist (with portfolios in Substantial Assets and International Cases), a Member of the English Law Society Family Law Committee, a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, a Fellow of the Centre for Social Justice, a Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution and a member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.
He is author of “The International Family Law Practice” (Jordan’s 5th edition Dec 2016). He is Honorary Professor at Leicester University and Visiting Professor at the University of Law. He received the OBE in 2015 for services to international family law.
He is an Anglican lay preacher.
England is about to pass into law what will be, for recipients of a divorce petition, probably the fastest divorce anywhere in the world. The respondent may have just over six weeks’ notice from receipt,
Overview Whereas a couple of decades ago international family law could be safely ignored by many family lawyers, it is now commonplace in very many cases as a feature or as the predominant initial theme.
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