Help and Advice

A Guide to Bankruptcy Proceedings

If you’re facing an overwhelming amount of debt with no way to pay it all back, it might be time to consider starting bankruptcy proceedings.

General

How Do You Create a Cohabitation Agreement?

The law doesn’t meaningfully recognise relationships outside of marriage or civil partnerships. But you can legally protect your cohabiting relationship by making a cohabitation agreement.

Relationship advice

Cohabitation in the UK: Rights, Agreements, and Legal Implications

Unmarried couples do not have the same rights as married couples. But what rights do you have?

Relationship advice

How to Arrange Child Maintenance After a Divorce

Making child maintenance arrangements with your ex-partner after you get divorced helps to support your children financially. With multiple options available, learn which way is best for you.

Children advice Divorce

Ending a Civil Partnership: Legal Criteria and Process

Civil partnerships can break down for many reasons. But to bring your civil partnership to a legal end, you will need to prove that your relationship has ‘irretrievably’ broken down.  

Breakup advice

How to Solve a Divorce Dispute With Family Mediation

Family mediation can be an effective way of solving a divorce dispute. By approaching the process with the right attitude and working constructively with your ex-partner, you can keep costs and disruption to your life down to a minimum.

Breakup advice Divorce

How to Help Your Children As You Organise Child Residency

Parents separating and sharing custody can be a difficult time for a child. It’s important to make sure you communicate with them clearly, and listen carefully to their needs during this period.

Children advice

How to Ask Your Fiancé For a Prenup

Asking your fiancé about getting a prenup could be a difficult conversation, so knowing the right way to handle it is key.
 

Relationship advice

Prenup: Is It Needed? Understanding the Importance in the UK

When entering a marriage or civil partnership, you may consider a prenuptial agreement; a document declaring how assets will be split between the couple should the marriage eventually end in divorce.

Relationship advice

How to Make Shared Custody Easier On Your Kids

When parents split up, it’s common for their children to live for part of the time with each parent. This is often referred to as shared custody, although the modern term is ‘shared residence’.
 

Children advice