17 May 2018
Head of Family, Jo Edwards was invited onto BBC2’s Victoria Derbyshire programme alongside Penny Mansfield and Natasha Brittan to provide expert opinion on England and Wales’s current divorce system and calls for divorce reform. During the programme Jo discusses the potential benefits of no fault divorce, including reducing conflict, particularly in cases involving children.
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16 May 2018
Carole Cook, partner in our Private Client team, was quoted by The Law Society Gazette in their article 'On the money'.
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15 May 2018
Leading family lawyer and partner in Forsters' Family team, Rosie Schumm and trainee solicitor, Jonathan Lyness, wrote a piece for Spear's magazine discussing the upcoming Supreme Court Judement as Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld campaign to extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples.
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15 May 2018
Jo Edwards, Head of Family, answers a reader's question in the Financial Times about the court's approach to maintenance on divorce where someone has had time out of the workplace to raise children.
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8 May 2018
Jo Edwards, Head of Family, was quoted in The Telegraph discussing the unequal rights of and financial pitfalls faced by unmarried couples upon the death of a partner.
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1 May 2018
James Brockhurst, senior associate, and Raffaella Maisto, associate, both of Forsters' Private Client team, consider the recent consultation on capital gains tax (CGT) payment requirements relating to disposals of UK residential property in a recent Q&A style article for Lexis PSL Private Client.
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1 May 2018
The Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 contains provisions requiring disclosure of historic non-compliance to HMRC by 30 September 2018: the "requirement to correct" rule. This is part of a range of legislation targeting offshore tax evasion.
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30 April 2018
Jo Edwards, Head of Family, was quoted in an article by The Guardian about the Supreme Court case of Siobhan McLaughlin, who is fighting the state’s refusal to pay widowed parent’s allowance to an unmarried mother.
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26 April 2018
Jo Edwards, Head of Family, was quoted by The Guardian discussing no-fault divorce.
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16 April 2018
Senior associate, Amanda Sandys and associate, Christine Abbotts have written for YourMoney.com on the non-disclosure of assets upon divorce.
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