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…
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…
Most relationships go through their share of difficult times, but some couples seem to weather these times better than others. A new study from the US has attempted to shed some light on this by looking at how some couples work to not only stay in the relationship but to also keep it moving forward….
A new study has found that shared custody arrangements between separated parents can be much less stressful for children than living full-time with one parent. It highlighted that shared custody in this case means the sharing of physical custody, where the child lives for a roughly equal time with each parent in their separate households….
National Records of Scotland (NRS) has published ‘Scotland’s Population 2016 – the Registrar General’s Annual Review of Demographic Trends’. The Annual Review has been published every year since 1855 and gives an insight into the changing demographic profile of Scotland. The report also includes new data about births, adoptions, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships registered…
People who are married but thinking about divorce shouldn’t rush to act on these thoughts as there is a good chance they will change their mind. This is one of the findings from new US based research, which revealed that around 50% of those considering divorce had changed their mind twelve months later. The study,…
New analysis has shown that private pension wealth is the biggest component of household wealth in the UK, and has highlighted how important it is that this wealth is separated fairly in the event of divorce for the future financial well-being of both parties. The analysis by Aviva follows the latest statistical release on divorce…
Insight into Scotland’s Births, Deaths, and Marriages: Q1 2017 Statistics The latest figures from National Records of Scotland have given an insight into the numbers of births, deaths and marriages taking place in Scotland during the first quarter of 2017. According to the provisional figures there were 3,578 marriages in total, 66 more than during…
