Enactment Citation
SI 2010/1205
Commencement Date
30 April 2010
Legislation Affected
SI 1994/2981 revoked
Enabling Power
Adoption and Children Act 2002, ss 77(6), 78(3), 140(8), Sch 1, para 1(1)

A new charity, Maypole Women, has been established to specifically support women and their children through separation and divorce.

The facts

The proceedings concerned two children, B, a girl who was aged five at the time of the proceedings, and J, who was aged nine months at the time of the proceedings. The mother was a Romanian citizen who was aged 23.

Geraldine Morris considers the courts’ approach to assets acquired post-separation