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DIVORCE & SEPARATION
Post separation abuse lawyer
Leaving a relationship does not always end the abuse. In many cases, control, manipulation or intimidation intensify after separation, especially when children, finances or property remain entangled. This is known as post-separation abuse — a pattern of coercive behaviour that continues after the relationship ends.
Property adjustment order
When couples divorce or separate, one of the most difficult questions is: what happens to the property — the family home, other real estate, savings, other assets? In common-law jurisdictions like the UK, one of the tools available to courts is the Property Adjustment Order (PAO), which allows re-distribution of property between spouses or civil partners.
Refinance mortgage after divorce
Divorce is not only an emotional challenge — it is a financial and legal earthquake. One of the most stressful questions separating couples face is:
“What happens to the mortgage and the house?”
For many families, the matrimonial home is the most valuable asset. It also carries the most significant debt.
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CHILD LAW
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Children maintenance
Children maintenance definition
Children maintenance is a set of payments made from one parent to another to help pay for your child’s living costs. It’s paid by the parent who doesn’t usually live with the child to the person who has most day-to-day care of the child and called ’child support’.
This payment is not only based on day-to-day care of the child but also on both parents’ earnings.
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Criminal family law
Common Law marriage France
When couples from English-speaking countries move to France, a common question arises:
“Will my common-law marriage be recognised under French law?”
In many common-law jurisdictions (United States, Canada, Australia, the UK historically), couples acquire legal rights simply by living together as a couple without any formal ceremony. These rights can include inheritance, spousal support, property sharing, and recognition as a spouse for immigration or benefits.
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Financial matters
High net worth divorce
Divorcing is financial and time consuming and is also emotionally difficult.
In France, high net worth divorces are more complex due to the nature and size of the assets but also depending on the matrimonial property regime chosen in the first place.
Moreover, in a high net worth divorce, spouses have become used to a high standard of living too and their needs and expectations are thus different to a standard divorce.
As the expectations are higher, disputes can also be more important.
Spousal maintenance
Only spouses so married couples may be entitled to a maintenance claim or to pay for spousal maintenance and your lawyer’s firm can help you calculate the award.
Spousal maintenance definition:
Spousal maintenance is a payment paid by a spouse to the other spouse if a spouse doesn’t have enough income after you’re separated from the other.
When a spouse has much higher income than the other, there may need to be a period of ongoing financial support in order not to affect the well-being of the other.
The paying spouse is the debtor and the one receiving the allowance is the recipient.
Calculating child maintenance payments
Child maintenance calculations can vary between countries, and both France and the UK have their own systems for determining child maintenance payments.
United Kingdom (UK):
In the UK, child maintenance payments are typically determined by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS), which is a government agency. The CMS uses a formula to calculate the amount of child maintenance that the non-residential parent (the parent who doesn’t have the main day-to-day care of the child) should pay. The formula considers factors such as the non-residential parent’s gross income, the number of children involved, and the number of nights the children spend with the non-residential parent.
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LEGACY
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