HopeHolm Family Law
It is important to know where you will stand financially if you decide to separate and start divorce proceedings. One question you are likely to want answered is whether you will get spousal maintenance if you divorce your husband or wife. As a family law solicitor, I understand just how crucial it is to know …
RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN ADOPTIONS / LEGAL GUARDIANSHIP ORDERS AS ADOPTIONS UNDER ENGLISH COMMON LAW IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE (FAMILY DIVISION) IN THE MATTER OF THE INHERENT JURISDICTION OF THE HIGH COURT AND IN THE MATTER OF THE SENIOR COURTS ACT 1981 This case concerns an application under England jurisprudence for the recognition of …
If you are splitting up from an unmarried partner or divorcing a husband or wife you need to know if you require a child arrangement order from the family court to sort out the custody and contact arrangements for your children. Family law solicitor, Angelique Holm, is an expert in children law and can answer …
When you are debating whether to take your ex-partner to court to resolve a family law dispute your legal costs are an important factor in whether you decide to start court proceedings or in how you respond to an application made against you. As a family law solicitor, I represent parents and separating couples in …
Who gets the house in a divorce is a key question when you are separating from your husband or wife. You may want to keep the house for sentimental reasons or because you don’t want to disrupt your children. Maybe you can’t face the thought of a house move when you are going through the …
When you are getting divorced because either you or your spouse has had an affair it is often assumed that the innocent party should get a better divorce financial settlement than the guilty party because as the separation is down to adultery the guilty spouse should pay up. That isn’t how UK divorce law works. …
When you are contemplating a divorce one of your questions for your family lawyer is whether you or your spouse will have to pay the divorce legal fees. With the introduction of no-fault divorce proceedings, family law solicitor, Angelique Holm, looks at who pays the legal fees in no-fault divorce proceedings. London Family and Children …
As a family lawyer, I represent parents and separating couples at fact-finding hearings. There is a lot of confusion about what a fact-finding hearing is and whether you need one to help resolve a family law dispute. In this blog, I explain what a fact-finding hearing (also referred to as a finding-of-fact hearing) is and …
Although child arrangement orders have been around for a while many parents have not heard about them and what they do. Parents still think in terms of custody and contact for their children.Those terms are long gone although family law solicitors still refer to them as everyone knows what they mean. In this blog we …
No-fault divorce was introduced in the UK in April 2022. Whilst most have welcomed the new divorce procedure there are some who would prefer to say why they are getting divorced because it feels right to have an acknowledgement that the marriage has broken down because of their husband or wife’s adultery or unreasonable behaviour. …
