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The Financial Remedies Working Group – Essential Update
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The dust is only just starting to settle following the April 2014 changes in the family law arena but now two reports have been published dealing with further changes to family proceedings.
Readers of Family Law will recall that
The President’s 12th ‘View from the President’s Chambers’ published on 4 June 2014 introduced two working groups which were to produce their interim reports by 31 July 2014; the Children and Vulnerable Witness Working Group and the Financial Remedies Working Group (who are working on the new Money Arrangements Programme – the MAP).
This Essential Update deals with the
report of the Financial Remedies Working Group.
In a nutshell:
The report considers that the current procedure of Form Es FDA FDR and final hearing works well and should continue. But it recommends a number of improvements some of which would necessitate changes to the FPR 2010.
Of note is that there is...
Read the full article here.
