O caminho a seguir: Revogar a presunção de contacto parental
The government has announced plans to repeal the presumption of parental in...
Children’s Voices to Move Further to the Forefront of Family Law Decisions
The UK is expanding child-focused courts to ensure children’s voices are he...
Surrogacy in England and Wales – What you need to know
Surrogacy offers a route to parenthood for individuals and couples who may...
Semana da mediação familiar 2026
During Family Mediation Week, Goodman Ray's mediators help families resolve...
Ano novo, novo começo: Conselhos de Direito da Família sobre Separação, Parentalidade e Arranjos de Crianças
The New Year often brings reflection and change for families. Increased pre...
O que é o abandono matrimonial transnacional?
Transnational marriage abandonment is a recognised form of domestic abuse t...
Quem paga as propinas da universidade após a separação e o divórcio?
Deciding who pays university fees after separation or divorce can be comple...
Contacto pós-adoção: Compreender o impacto nas famílias
Learn how post-adoption contact supports children, birth families, and adop...
Considerar as reivindicações de direitos humanos na representação jurídica de crianças
Understand when a child’s human rights may be breached and how to consider...
Guia do Conselho de Justiça Familiar para o Apoio a Indivíduos Neurodivergentes no Sistema de Justiça Familiar
The Family Justice Council has recently published essential guidance on neu...
Transparência nos tribunais de família e Sara Sharif - o que é que isso significa?
Introduction Debates surrounding transparency in the family courts have bee...
Compreender a “Lente do Trauma” no Direito da Família
A trauma lens is an approach that focuses on the impact of past or present...
Acórdão do Tribunal de Recurso
P (A Child) (Abduction: Child’s Objections) Janet Broadley and Ed...
Dar um pouco ou muito? Como são tratadas as ofertas num divórcio
How gifts are treated in a divorce If you are going through a divorce or...
Casamento forçado, casamento infantil e mutilação genital feminina (MGF): Sinais práticos e proteção jurídica
Forced Marriage, Child Marriage and FGM Whilst many of us think about Chris...
Alterações ao Regulamento de Processo de Família
On April 29th, changes to the Family Procedure Rules will be introduced. Co...
New Judgment Re Z (Surrogacy: Step-parent Adoption)
Re Z (Surrogacy: Step-parent Adoption) Jemma Dally and Marie Campbell instr...
Judgment is now available in a complex financial remedies case conducted by Trudi Featherstone and Hannah Ward
We are pleased to share that judgment is now available in a complex financi...
O papel dos intermediários nos processos familiares
An intermediary can refer to a third party who is involved in assisting par...
Projeto-piloto de transparência em matéria de direito da família
On 30th January 2023, a reporting pilot scheme was launched in the Cardiff,...
O que é a responsabilidade parental?
What is Parental Responsibility? Parental Responsibility (PR) is the power...
‘Gone to the Dogs’ - Animais de estimação e divórcio no Tribunal de Família’
Pets & Divorce in the Family Court ‘Dog Law’ as it is sometimes known,...
Atrasos no tribunal arruinando vidas. Goodman Ray Solicitors oferece aconselhamento gratuito durante a Good Divorce Week 2022
Goodman Ray is supporting Resolution’s Good Divorce Week (28 Nov 2022 – 2 D...
Location Location Location: Marriage Venues
The Commons Library briefing paper on marriage venues was published on Tues...
Legal Aid and trapped capital
R (oao GR) v Director of Legal Aid Casework [2020] EWHC 3140 (Admin) Contex...
M (Uma criança) [2021] EWCA Civ 437
This is a case in which Peggy Ray represented the child (M), through her ch...
Goodman Ray congratula-se com o regime de cupões de mediação do Governo
The government has today announced that it is investing £1m in family media...
Divórcio não contestado vs contestado
Uncontested vs Contested Divorce – What’s the difference? Divor...
Are Borders Barriers to Contact? Separated International Families in a Time of Coronavirus
Are Borders Barriers to Contact? Separated International Families in a Time...
How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected service of applications and Orders under the Family Law Act 1996? (The welcomed introduction of Practice Direction 36U)
How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected service of applications and Orders u...
Serviços sociais e crianças: As diferentes fases do processo de proteção da criança
This guide breaks down the key stages of the child protection process in En...
Conselhos sobre como passar o vosso primeiro Natal como pais divorciados
The most wonderful time of the year can also be the most trying for newly.....
Casamento forçado no Reino Unido
The issues around forced marriage are by no means new, but there has been a...
Parental Alienation – recent developments
The current law provides that a couple can divorce if there has been an ‘ir...
Chegou a altura do divórcio sem culpa?
The current law provides that a couple can divorce if there has been an ‘ir...
Proteção das crianças e dos seus direitos no que se refere à utilização de decisões de alojamento seguro, de decisões de privação de liberdade tomadas ao abrigo da jurisdição inerente e do Tribunal de Proteção
In this article we will consider the powers of the Family Court to deprive...
What is the current position in respect of public funding for women’s refuges?
In October 2017, a 54-page document was drafted by the Department for Commu...
New Zealand introduces domestic violence leave
New Zealand MP, Jan Logie, initially proposed a new bill that introduced pa...
Is it the end for the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) National Unit?
The Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDACs) were pioneered by the retired Di...
Thum v Thum [2018] EWCA Civ 624
The Court of Appeal recently had to determine the issue of effective servic...
O Supremo Tribunal decide que a lei sobre uniões civis é incompatível com a Convenção Europeia dos Direitos do Homem
On 27th June 2018 the Supreme Court unanimously decided that the UK’s law o...
A evolução da legislação relativa ao casamento forçado no Reino Unido
Until relatively recently, forced marriage was not a specific criminal offe...
Domestic Abuse Bill consultation and the Law Society’s response
On the 31 May, the Government published a consultation in preparation for t...
Apoio e orientação para tutores especiais
A Special Guardianship Order is an order which places a child in the long-t...
Thompson v Ragget and others [2018] EWHC 688
If a cohabiting couple do not make wills and one passes away, the survivor...
Revisão do protocolo para o encaminhamento de famílias pelo tribunal para centros de contacto para crianças
A revised protocol for referrals of families by the court to child contact...
Is it time for No Fault Divorce?
Late last month Resolution – a family law practitioners group – met for the...
Transferência da residência de uma criança quando uma das partes não cumpre uma decisão de assistência à família
Judgment in the recent case of Re C (A Child) [2018] EWHC 557 (Fam) has bee...
Should victims be cross examined by domestic abusers in the family courts?
Since the abolition of Legal Aid for the majority of family cases in 2013,...
Penny Appeal publishes Islamic Adoption and Fostering Guidance
The charity, Penny Appeal, has published important guidance on Islamic adop...
Quando é que um casamento pode ser anulado?
The vast majority of couples looking to dissolve a marriage do so by the di...
Mais uma utilização abusiva da secção 20 da Lei da Criança de 1989 - quando é que isto vai parar?
Herefordshire Council v AB [2018] EWFC 10 is a judgment handed down earlier...
Novas orientações práticas para os processos por rapto internacional de crianças
Sir James Munby issued practice guidance: Case Management and Mediation of...
O que constitui um comportamento coercivo numa relação íntima?
Domestic abuse may not always be in a physical form. A victim may not recog...
Cuidados partilhados dos filhos em caso de separação
When parents separate, issues in respect of the future arrangements for car...
Os testes de polígrafo são admissíveis como prova em processos familiares?
Polygraph testing, more commonly referred to as lie detector testing, has b...
Ouvir para compreender
It is the Family Mediators Association Mediation Week this week, and a welc...
Mito do casamento de direito comum e dos acordos de coabitação
The cohabiting family is the fastest growing family type in England. Despit...
Bitcoin Frenzy- O Tribunal de Família está preparado para este novo desenvolvimento?
Despite the many reforms in family law, one could argue that the family cou...
