Episode 69

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12th Jun 2024

Family Law and Divorce - with Cate Maguire

Cate is a Senior Associate at Kingsley Napley and spoke to us about what’s involved when parents divorce.  

We covered: 

  • The 3 strands to a divorce – the divorce itself, the finances, the children. 
  • No fault divorce and what it is / what it means. 
  • What happens when courts get involved in terms of making an order about how the children spend their time between parents and whether there is any flexibility. 
  • Particular patterns of how to share the care of children that Cate would recommend to parents. 
  • How long the divorce process can take particularly when children are involved. 
  • Mediation and how that works as part of the process. 
  • What happens if you aren’t married and have children but want to separate.  
  • Whether there is such a thing as common law marriage in the UK. 
  • Child maintenance, what it is and how it is calculated (link below). 
  • Cate’s tips for communicating your breakup with your child/ren and managing the relationship going forward.  
  • Cate’s tips for trying to avoid an acrimonious divorce including making sure you have lots of people and systems around to support you both. 
  • Having goals in place for the future with your children and the importance of communicating these to your lawyer.  
  • Pre-nups / post-nups – the law around these and how they work. 

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Kingsley Napley Family Law - https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/family-law-blog 

About Cate - https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/our-people/cate-maguire 

Child maintenance calculator - https://www.gov.uk/calculate-child-maintenance 

One of the Apps Cate recommends – Our Family Wizard   

Our co-parenting blog - https://www.bespokefamily.co.uk/blog/coparenting 

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