Bonus Payments: Setting limits

Brabners LLP | Family Law Journal | May 2015 #146
Helen Marriott highlights the challenges of dealing with bonus payments when assessing periodical payments ‘The periodical payments award may be partitioned, with needs being met from the base salary, and additional discretionary items being met from the bonus on a capped percentage basis.’Bankers’ bonuses frequently dominate the headlines and occupy the political platform. Bonuses may …

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Pet Disputes: For richer, for paw(er)

Rayden Solicitors | Family Law Journal | June 2014 #137
Rebecca Harling reports on the often vexing issue of the ownership of pets on relationship breakdown and the courts’ approach ‘The law in England and Wales regards pets as chattels in the context of a financial settlement, to be divided up in the same manner as the dining room table or television.’ A recent survey …

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