Divorce

  The Office for National Statistics (‘ONS’) releases yearly divorce statistics based on information from HM Courts and Tribunals Service. The most recent statistical report covers the year 2020. The overall total of divorces for 2020 was 103,592, a decrease of...

Avoid Pension Poverty After Divorce

Spouses’ decision to divorce or dissolve their civil partnership, raises many complex questions about the division of assets. A largely overlooked asset is an individual’s pension which may have accrued over many years and can provide a vital lifeline in retirement....
Economic Abuse

Economic Abuse

Following the Domestic Abuse Bill, the definition of domestic abuse has extended to economic abuse too. This is separate to ‘controlling or coercive behaviour’ and to ‘psychological, emotional or other abuse’ and could stand alone be enough to amount to domestic...