Australia has become the most recent country to allow same sex marriage, after its Senate and then House of Representatives passed the enabling legislation, reports the Daily Mail. Interestingly, however, in addition to allowing thousands of same sex couples to start planning their weddings, the new legislation also means that one couple who were already…
Many studies have been carried out to investigate the impact of marriage and divorce on health. One of the latest studies has looked at links between dementia and marriage, reports the British Medical Journal, and concluded that married people have a lower risk of developing the disease. The research, which was published online in the…
Seasons greetings! As the holiday approaches we would like to take this opportunity to inform valued clients and potential new customers of our opening hours and Christmas activities. Christmas and New Year Opening Hours Please note that our offices will close as of 22nd December and will re-open on 3rd January. During this time, our…
New data from UK Finance has given an interesting insight into mortgage activity in Scotland. The data shows that in the third quarter of 2017 in Scotland: Home buyers borrowed £2.55 billion, up 1% quarter-on-quarter and 15% year-on-year. They took out 18,900 loans, the same as in the previous quarter but 11% more than in…
A recent decision by the High Court in Australia has cast doubt over the future of prenuptial agreements in that country, reports news.com.au. The case involved a couple, given the pseudonyms Mr Kennedy and Ms Thorne, who met online and subsequently married. At the time, Mr Kennedy was 67-years-old and a successful property developer in…
Mental health issues are making matters significantly worse for families going through divorce, new research has found. Divorce can already be one of the most difficult life experiences families can go through, but according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), mental health issues of spouses and their children are increasingly making the process…
A report from the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Communities Committee has called for homebuyers, and new build homebuyers in particular, to be given greater support when building defects are detected or homes are found to be of a poor build quality. The Committee has set out in the report a number of improvements that…
On Saturday 9 December, the solicitors at Complete Clarity will don their winter woollies and bear the cold in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens as part of the “worlds largest ever sleepout event” to raise money for Scottish homelessness. The Sleep in the Park event is organised by Social Bite, and the money raised will go…
Children whose parents are divorced run an increased risk of divorce themselves compared to children whose parents remained married, and genetic factors are primarily to blame, new research has found. The study, by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Lund University in Sweden, set out to answer the question “Why does divorce run in…
The UK’s decision to leave the EU could put at risk many of the legal protections currently available to children involved in international family law disputes, a new report has warned. According to the report by Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights), legal protections around child custody, child abduction and child maintenance could be put…
