The figures may vary from country to country, but international research invariably reveals women – particularly mothers – suffer enduring financial hardship post-separation.
Quite often, something will pop up on the legal or general news radar that casts me into “I wonder” mode … promptly sparking a Google-fest of searching and cross-referencing to satiate my curiosity.
A relationship breakdown can be the most testing and heart-wrenching event you’ll face across your entire lifetime – especially if there are children involved.
I’ve had an active interest in property transactions for many years from different vantage points, both as a lawyer and as a bank lender. So I’ve seen property transactions go both good and bad, and everything in between, from a number of perspectives.
According to Sir Richard Branson, all an entrepreneur really needs to enter a new industry is a willingness to learn. Day-in, day-out here at Aspiring Law, we advise and support enterprises ranging from innovative start-ups to companies with decades of trading behind them.
It’s an oft-quoted figure bandied about when it comes to marriage break-ups: half of us who make it to the altar will divorce. Ah, but nay, say our national number crunchers; that’s actually quite the urban myth.
As we begin to look at 2016, the year that was, Clayton v Clayton will go down in the history books as one of the most significant legal happenings of the year - and one of the most defining cases in New Zealand relationship property and trust law history.
