If you are experiencing the sadness of separation or divorce, colour can help. No matter how you are feeling or want to feel, there will be a colour that expresses that emotion. You may choose to wear colours to stay with that feeling, or colours to support change....
We’re heading for the long summer holidays and if you are separated, it might not feel all that joyous for a multitude of reasons. Perhaps it’s the first time without your partner or as a family. Perhaps choosing a holiday feels more difficult and more...
Alison Steadman has caused a mini furore in the divorcing world. Perhaps she has been spending too much time with Penelope Keith (see last blog.) In the Daily Mail , http://dailym.ai/10WrK6v she comments that people are divorcing far too easily, because there is no...
I try to hold onto my equilibrium as I read Penelope Keith’s comments in Country Life Magazine on people divorcing in their 50’s and 60’s. Her comments are reproduced in The Daily Mail: http://dailym.ai/112A4Rf ‘If only we could educate people to go on living...
Interesting article in the Standard yesterday: http://bit.ly/198vPsc about ‘ladies who lunch’ relying on their husbands for meal tickets. I take issue with Sarah Duckworth from Munday’s Solicitors who says that women are cynical and deliberately don’t go to work in...
Delighted to post this Guest Blog from Gillian Bishop at Family Law in Partnership writing this for us. I recently bumped into a former client whom I had represented in a collaborative divorce a few years ago. Over the course of working with him I had got to know him...
Good interview on the Today programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21999855 with Mark Harper at Withers and Christine Blacklaws from the Co-op debating the effect of the removal of legal aid from divorce cases except where there is proof of domestic violence. There...
Research published today in the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/divorce/9987391/Loneliness-time-bomb-warning-fuelled-by-baby-boomer-divorces.html highlights the percentage of people in their 50's and 60's who are lonely and that divorce contributes to...
Vanessa Feltz, poses a very interesting question today in the Express. http://bit.ly/Z2tS about whether you stay loyal to 'the marriage', friends and family, or break for the border and take a risk of finding happiness. She talks particularly about the age group of...
We have had a very long and cold winter. All most of us hope for are some rays of sun and some warmth. Seeing spring flowers, trees in bud and a hint of sunshine is usually enough to renew hope and faith in life and lift the spirits. However, that isn’t always so...
Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce have given us a very graphic insight into the devastating consequences of divorce. The reason we are so horrified by the disintegration of their family life, and their own lives is because theirs is an extreme version of what so many people...
Why is it that when you are divorced or separated, everything seems to conspire to make you believe that the whole world is in love, in a couple and living in a blissful idyll. The hurdle of Christmas and all it represents – happy families, two parents under one...
If you and your partner are in crisis or in difficulties, I can offer you both a joint session and we can explore how to help you improve things between you or how to separate as comfortably as possible.
This blog is written by Michael Rowlands, Senior Partner at Kingsley Napley: The American writer Jonathan Franzen suggested that “nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people”. As a divorce lawyer I see, daily, the fall out of such relationships and...
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