Maintenance Pending Suit: In excess

Richard Adams examines the impact of the parties’ standard of living on interim maintenance and the broad-brush approach of the courts ‘Interim hearings are expensive and, as such, should be pursued only when, on a broad assessment, the court’s intervention is manifestly required.’Many family law practitioners will be familiar with the maintenance pending suit budget …
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International Focus: The devil is in the details

Chris McIntosh and Duncan Ranton summarise lesser-known aspects of the EU maintenance regulation A parent from another EU member state will be entitled to have a decision about child maintenance registered and enforced in the UK courtesy of the British taxpayer. There has been a lot of interest over the past year in the family …
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