Splitting Up: Legal and Financial Guide to Separation and Divorce - Softcover

Green, David

 
9781850917663: Splitting Up: Legal and Financial Guide to Separation and Divorce

Synopsis

Written both for married couples and unmarried couples who live together, this handbook explains divorce and separation procedures, property and maintenance law, the position of children, wills, inheritance and taxation. Advantages and pitfalls of different courses of action are indicated.

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Book Description

Updated to include the most recent legislation and changes to the Child Support Agency, Splitting Up aims to guide the general reader through the various stages of a divorce or separation. It explains the tax implications of divorce, and how assets can be shared or divided.

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Introduction,

general warnings and guidelines;

Legal procedures, courts, the grounds for divorce and undefended divorce;

The general law on property and maintenance;

What income and property?;

The starting point for financial calculations under the general law;

Calculating maintenance under the general law;

Sharing capital and property;

The clean break;

Court property orders and why they may pay;

Wills and inheritance;

Children - parental responsibility, residence, contact, maintenance, adoption, local authority care and wardship;

Professional advice, costs, Legal Aid and complaints;

Appendices.

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ISBN 10:  0749415177 ISBN 13:  9780749415174
Publisher: Kogan page, 1995
Softcover