Faultless divorce, as explained by MJM’s Senior Associate Nicole Cavanagh in our December 2022 publication, has found its way to our shores. On 14th March 2023, the Minister of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Reform brought into effect the Matrimonial Causes (Faultless Divorce) Amendment Act 2022 and...
PMC and VNL [2022] SC (Bda) 45 Civ This case involved an application by a father (“F”) for the return of his daughter (“C”) from Texas, USA to Bermuda. The case was heard by Mussenden J in the Supreme Court on 7 June 2022 with judgment...
As lawyers with a keen eye on human rights and family law, we have followed with interest the various cases involving same-sex partnerships and marriages in Bermuda. Our Director, Jennifer Haworth reported on the Bermuda Bred Company v The Minister of Home Affairs and the...
Changes in England and Wales The “no-fault divorce,” as it has become known, was finally forced into being by the case of Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41. Mrs. Owens had petitioned for divorce on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour in 2015, following a 40-year marriage....
A judgment was handed down in the above case on 7th June 2022. The Wife’s application for ancillary relief had been heard over two days in the Supreme Court by the Registrar some three months earlier. The parties married in 1997 and divorce proceedings had been...