
Home > Blogs
Marilyn Stowe Family Law and Divorce Blog
- The Blawggies 2010
external story (01/09/2010)
- 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)