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• The Blawggies 2010
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• Rites of Passage in the Eternal City: what will survive of us is love
  external story (25/08/2010)
  
• Cuts to family law legal aid: an update
  external story (23/08/2010)
  
• “Law will tear us apart”
  external story (16/08/2010)
  
• “We must help the grandparents hit by divorce”
  external story (13/08/2010)
  
• Legal aid solicitors and Grahame Stowe Bateson: what will the Legal Services Commission do next?
  external story (09/08/2010)
  
• The Imerman judgement: does this picture ring true?
  external story (07/08/2010)
  
• Split hearings: what will happen now? By guest blogger James Thornton
  external story (04/08/2010)
  
• The Hildebrand Rules and Imerman v Tchenguiz: what about Jim v Mary?
  external story (30/07/2010)
  
• Divorce questions? Join me for a Live Q&A
  external story (28/07/2010)
  
• Boris Berezovsky’s divorce: the “biggest settlement in British legal history”?
  external story (27/07/2010)
  
• Mr Justice Munby and the piglets: a salutary tale
  external story (26/07/2010)
  
• Stowe Family Law wants YOU
  external story (23/07/2010)
  
• How far does a smile go?
  external story (20/07/2010)
  
• A family lawyer’s challenge to Basildon Council
  external story (17/07/2010)
  
• Prenuptial agreements: a waste of time and money?
  external story (12/07/2010)
  
• How one son’s love went around the world – and how you can help
  external story (09/07/2010)
  
• Moving on after divorce – in 100 different ways! By guest blogger Liz Bell.
  external story (06/07/2010)
  
• Halliwells and the true cost of the recession: why take a cheap shot?
  external story (02/07/2010)
  
• Cohabitation: what has Australia got that England hasn’t?
  external story (30/06/2010)
  
• The Law Student Who Did
  external story (24/06/2010)
  
• Fathers’ rights and family law in 2010: could every day be Father’s Day?
  external story (21/06/2010)
  
• “If you walk through the courtroom door, the outcome cannot be guaranteed”
  external story (18/06/2010)
  
• Litigation funding: are brokers really “rescuers”?
  external story (14/06/2010)
  
• A summer party at St Paul’s
  external story (12/06/2010)
  
• Divorcing a bully – and seeking an Indemnity Costs order
  external story (11/06/2010)
  
• Truth comes in black and white – and all the shades of grey in between
  external story (07/06/2010)
  
• Family litigation & death: what happens next? By guest blogger Jonathan James
  external story (03/06/2010)
  
• Mother Nature wins the upper hand…
  external story (01/06/2010)
  
• Spouses who go forum shopping for divorce
  external story (28/05/2010)
  
• So you’re divorcing and the housing market has stalled. Now what? By guest blogger Andrea Essen.
  external story (26/05/2010)
  
• Stowe Family Law at York Races
  external story (25/05/2010)
  
• Foretelling the future of family law
  external story (21/05/2010)
  
• “A model for breaking up”
  external story (19/05/2010)
  
• About to email your divorce lawyer? Read this before you press “send”
  external story (17/05/2010)
  
• Life after divorce: how I turned lemons into lemonade. By guest blogger Sue Jenkinson
  external story (14/05/2010)
  
• The Politicians’ Wedding Entrance Dance
  external story (09/05/2010)
  
• Stowe Family Law in London: step by step!
  external story (07/05/2010)
  
• Stepping off the treadmill: a birthday on Capri
  external story (04/05/2010)
  
• Media and the Family Courts: Punishing the Innocent and Protecting the Guilty
  external story (30/04/2010)
  
• The client, the London office and the Annual Family Law School Seminar: what a week!
  external story (26/04/2010)
  
• Family law reform: is it out of this world?
  external story (23/04/2010)
  
• Cleaning up: one reason why divorce rates are falling…
  external story (20/04/2010)
  
• Delaying the Decree Absolute: another look at Miller Smith v Miller Smith
  external story (19/04/2010)
  
• JK Rowling & single mothers: from a family lawyer’s perspective
  external story (14/04/2010)
  
• Remembering Francine Morris (nee Rivlin) at the University of Leeds
  external story (12/04/2010)
  
• First Wife v Second Wife: which one gets priority?
  external story (08/04/2010)
  
• Professional ethics: keeping your head in a difficult situation
  external story (06/04/2010)
  
• The David and Goliath of Divorce
  external story (01/04/2010)
  
• Silver Divorce: until divorce do us part?
  external story (30/03/2010)
  
• Harrogate in Spring
  external story (26/03/2010)
  
• Radmacher v Granatino: what happens now? By guest blogger Ashley Murray.
  external story (22/03/2010)
  
• The Sirens of Divorce
  external story (19/03/2010)
  
• Should the ancillary relief system be revised?
  external story (16/03/2010)
  
• Coronation Street, grandparents’ rights and a family lawyers’ advice
  external story (12/03/2010)
  
• “London’s role as divorce payout capital confirmed”
  external story (10/03/2010)
  
• Caravaggio, ethics & the divorce courts – revisited
  external story (05/03/2010)
  
• A family lawyer meets her match!
  external story (01/03/2010)
  
• When you are in shock, what can you do?
  external story (25/02/2010)
  
• Letters of request: will other countries co-operate? By guest blogger Robin Charrot
  external story (24/02/2010)
  
• Seeing red: lipstick, sex appeal and a glamorous assassin
  external story (22/02/2010)
  
• Maintenance payments and a new partner: bad news for cohabitees? (Part 2)
  external story (19/02/2010)
  
• Maintenance payments and a new partner – what happens next? (Part 1)
  external story (17/02/2010)
  
• Divorce and tax avoidance schemes – by guest blogger Frank Arndt
  external story (12/02/2010)
  
• When opponent spouses become the Black Knights of divorce
  external story (08/02/2010)
  
• “German ordered to repay house deposit to his in-laws after divorce”
  external story (05/02/2010)
  
• Juggling marriage, motherhood and a career: can you do it?
  external story (01/02/2010)
  
• Divorce – sorry seems to be the hardest word
  external story (28/01/2010)
  
• Divorce in Europe: primed for change?
  external story (25/01/2010)
  
• Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements: are they any good? – by guest blogger Robin Charrot
  external story (23/01/2010)
  
• Divorce and children: how “conciliation hearings” can heal disagreements – by guest blogger Stephen Hopwood
  external story (22/01/2010)
  
• Divorce: how to calculate “reasonable needs” – by guest blogger Rachel Roberts
  external story (15/01/2010)
  
• WWGJD? What Would Grace Jones Do?
  external story (13/01/2010)
  
• “Marco Pierre White challenge could change divorce battles for ever”
  external story (12/01/2010)
  
• Life after divorce: limit your exposure
  external story (08/01/2010)
  
• The Marilyn Stowe Blog wins Family Lore’s Post of the Month trophy
  external story (06/01/2010)
  
• Divorce questions and answers on GMTV
  external story (05/01/2010)
  
• 2010, here we come…
  external story (31/12/2009)
  
• The family law case of the decade: White v White
  external story (29/12/2009)
  
• So, is Christmas a “Woman Thing”?
  external story (23/12/2009)
  
• Christmas and the divorced man: is my client right?
  external story (20/12/2009)
  
• Family comes first – and we often learn it the hard way
  external story (15/12/2009)
  
• Ruskin – the Victorian genius who still fascinates family lawyers
  external story (07/12/2009)
  
• Farewell Blanche Hunt
  external story (03/12/2009)
  
• Divorce with dignity is the way forward
  external story (02/12/2009)
  
• A Happier End to the Week!
  external story (27/11/2009)
  
• Normal service has been resumed
  external story (26/11/2009)
  
• Are dinner parties stressful?
  external story (24/11/2009)
  
• Why I disagree with Baroness Deech and her views on cohabitation
  external story (20/11/2009)
  
• Children & divorce: where do we go from here? By guest bloggers Stephen Hopwood & Andrea Essen.
  external story (16/11/2009)
  
• The 11 year itch
  external story (13/11/2009)
  
• The 11 year itch
  external story (13/11/2009)
  
• Hildebrand Documents & Marco Pierre White: why family lawyers should worry
  external story (10/11/2009)
  
• Rights for cohabiting couples: how far will the government dare to go? By guest blogger Isabel Thornton
  external story (09/11/2009)
  
• Divorce, Full Disclosure and Marco Pierre White
  external story (06/11/2009)
  
• Tepid welcome for Law Commission’s review of intestacy laws for cohabitants
  external story (04/11/2009)
  
• Fleetwood Mac and a divorce lawyer’s Rumours
  external story (03/11/2009)
  
• Divorce and women: which way does the wind blow?
  external story (30/10/2009)
  
• New legal rights for grandparents?
  external story (27/10/2009)
  
• Children Law: Our Young Client Appears In Court – by guest blogger Eleanor Webster
  external story (22/10/2009)
  
• Divorce and snap decisions do not mix
  external story (19/10/2009)
  
• What can politicians’ wives teach us about marriage?
  external story (16/10/2009)
  
• Coping with divorce, part three. Keep on moving!
  external story (12/10/2009)
  
• Coping with divorce, part two. Fight your demons.
  external story (08/10/2009)
  
• Coping with divorce, part one. Where’s your head at?
  external story (05/10/2009)
  
• Cafcass & Private Children Law Proceedings – by guest blogger Jenny Wilmot
  external story (02/10/2009)
  
• Prenuptial agreements and the High Holy Days: food for thought
  external story (30/09/2009)
  
• Why I gave the city a miss by guest blogger Fiona Geldart
  external story (25/09/2009)
  
• A bride and tested formula for mass entertainment
  external story (23/09/2009)
  
• International divorce and child abduction – by guest blogger Andrea Essen
  external story (18/09/2009)
  
• Why Baroness Deech is wrong – by guest blogger Jonathan James
  external story (16/09/2009)
  
• Amicable divorce: fact or fiction?
  external story (15/09/2009)
  
• On Beauty and Rejection
  external story (10/09/2009)
  
• An English Family Lawyer in Chicago
  external story (04/09/2009)
  
• Divorce, Fraud and the European Convention of Human Rights
  external story (01/09/2009)
  
• Are the odds stacked in favour of ‘gold diggers’?
  external story (26/08/2009)
  
• Child Support and Overseas Parents – by guest blogger Rachel Baul
  external story (21/08/2009)
  
• Divorce and its Effects on Children
  external story (17/08/2009)
  
• Divorce and Grandparents’ Rights
  external story (14/08/2009)
  
• Beware a divorce hangover from post-nuptial agreements
  external story (06/01/2009)
  
• Family law, pre-nups and Sir Mark Potter
  external story (21/10/2008)
  
• The FT and Pre-nups: Till Divorce Us Do Part
  external story (19/08/2008)
  
• “Prenuptial agreements: a rethink required”
  external story (14/08/2008)
  
• Prenuptial Agreements: A Family Affair?
  external story (12/08/2008)
  
• Pre-nups and politics: Dear Prime Minister…
  external story (12/06/2008)