It may be a deeply uncomfortable question to ask, but the best time to have a paternity test is before the child is even born. The specter of paternity fraud dives deep into the most primal human evolutionary fear. No man wants to raise a child not of their own blood – for the most […]
Category: Family Law
The Year in Review: Outcomes for Children in Need from 2020 to 2021
The top 10 largest children’s care providers made £300m profits the last year. Is this a good thing? One would have to say yes, since providers remaining solvent helps the service help children even if there is an increasing involvement of private equity. At the same time however, there is concern that some providers are […]
Getting Help for Domestic Abuse in the UK is Like Playing the Lottery
Did you know that the Crown Protection Services (CPS) records show that the charging rates for domestic abuse has lowered for the third year in the row? Is that good news? No, it means that the number of cases actually prosecuted has fallen while domestic abuse cases recorded by the police are at record high […]
How NOT to Get Your Family Law Case Destroyed by Facebook
Like it or not, many cases find themselves entangled with social media. Things done on the Internet can have drastic effects in someone’s personal life, and many cases have been destroyed by actions on Facebook. Social media can’t even be blamed for such things because it is a natural consequences of their ill-thought actions. Facebook […]
Why Would UK Companies Care about Domestic Abuse?
Not ‘should’, but ‘would’, as the over 665 companies that are members of the Employer’s Initiative for Domestic Abuse (EIDA) organization signify. It is an odd thing to consider when there’s a commonly held belief that a person’s private life and their public life are to be separate things and a company they work for […]