The Office for National Statistics reported that in 2020 just under half of all babies in England and Wales were born to unmarried parents. By comparison 5.4% of babies’ parents in 1960 were unmarried. This major societal change has meant that there are more unmarried fathers than ever before who are anxious not to miss out on their children’s lives and want to understand what parental rights they have.

Mali Smith, Legal Director in our Employment Law team reviews the best way to eliminate work related stress and toxic environment and provides ways in which this can be achieved.

It can be a huge relief when financial remedy proceedings come to an end, whether by consent order or through contested court proceedings. Everyone now knows where they stand financially and can start to make plans for and look to the future. This should be the end of matters, but unfortunately that is not always the case.

In a recent article Iris Jones, 83, spoke about how she had dumped her toyboy husband aged 37.

Losing a loved one is never easy, and if you suspect that their will may not reflect their true wishes, it can make what is already an emotional time even more difficult.

Quite some time following the original enactment of the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 (“the Act”), neonatal care leave and pay will, as confirmed by the government on 20 January 2025, come into force on 6 April 2025.

Making a Will is the only way you can ensure your assets are protected. This guide aims to answer all your questions about making a Will.

Deathbed gifts, known as Donatio Mortis Causa or DMC claims, are subject to rigorous judicial scrutiny before they will succeed. The latest case to come before the Court was Rahman v Hassan, in which the Claimant was successful.

Both proprietary and promissory estoppel are legal doctrines designed to stop a party from reneging on a promise that they have made to another party which has relied on that promise to their detriment. Proprietary estoppel is primarily concerned with land and property, whereas promissory estoppel claims concern other assets and are usually associated with an adjustment of a pre-existing contractual relationship between parties.

Contentious probate cases based on forgery are often few and far between. However, the recent, and extremely unusual, case of Wrangle v Brunt [2020] EHWC 1784 (Ch), resulted in both an intriguing judgement.