Financial Provision in Family Matters - 9780421630703

Product Description

Explaining the law and setting out the procedures, Financial Provision in Family Matters:

Provides cohabitation contracts, different options for purchasing property, trust deeds and other formal agreements
Deals with same sex couples, examining issues such as children and inheritance
Advises on practical matters encountered, such as buying and renting property, pension arrangements, taxation and wills
Goes through areas of dispute and crisis such as homelessness, immigration, emergency medical treatment, contact with and financial claims for children, and property dispute
Sets out each person’s, or the couple’s, legal status in relation to various transactions and situations
Reflects the changes introduced by the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004
Includes agendas and checklists for meetings, together with questionnaires and information sheets
Covers the Civil Partnership Act 2004
Updates on Immigration issues with relation to cohabitation
Includes the Family Law Bulletin, issued ten times a year

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Subscription Information

Initial price includes updating releases until December 2010. We will contact you each year to find out if you wish to renew your subscription.

Two updating releases published each year.

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Contents

Circumstances in which issues concerning family finance may arise and statutes that apply
The law affecting cohabitees
Married people during currency of marriage
The new provisions under the Family Law Act 1996
Legal provisions other than sections 23 to 37 MCA and pensions
Section 23 to 25 MCA as amended by FLA 1996 (including pensions)
Remaining financial provisions of the MCA
Taxation
Children
Inheritance Act 1975 and intestacy
Legal aid
Welfare benefits
Child support
Enforcement
Draft order and agreements
Financial information
Statutory information

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Reviews

Colleagues, who have borrowed it, have remarked how helpful they found it. The authors are to be congratulated on their achievement. - Solicitors' Journal, March 2001

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