The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has found that men enjoy 32 minutes' more leisure time than women every day. It seems that those claims women make saying that they do everything round the house while men relax might just be true! Some media... read more

The Office of National Statistics has revealed that the number of people who married in 2008 has dropped to 232,990 - the lowest number since 1895. People are also waiting longer to marry. The average age for a man to walk down the aisle is now 32.1 years and a woman 29.9 years. A range... read more

Various media reports have claimed that the Italian Prime Minister and his wife, Veronica Lario, have been trading allegations of adultery in the context of their divorce. Mr Berlusconi's antics have been widely reported and it is understood that Ms Lario left Mr Berlusconi when she... read more

Society is becoming increasingly familiar with the term "pre-nuptial agreement". This is a contract two people sign before they marry/enter into a Civil Partnership setting out how they would like their financial resources to be divided in the event their marriage... read more

Baroness Deech (a long term lecturer on family law at Oxford University) is arguing in a series of lectures that the divorce laws are out of date, can be unfair to men and degrading to women. She argues that increasingly there is an assumption that assets should be divided equally... read more

John Cleese and his third wife, Faye Eichelberger, have apparently reached a settlement which will leave her better off than him. Ms Eichelberger is to receive £8million in cash and other assets (including an apartment in New York and a mews house in London) and £600,000 a year for seven... read more

Facebook is a great tool to help you make friends and perhaps start a relationship. It can, however, make things difficult when separating. The divorce process in this country is designed, by and large, to protect the privacy of the parties involved. One example is when a... read more

Last week Earl Spencer and his wife reached an agreement over the division of assets in their long running divorce. Reports suggest that it was a deal done at the eleventh hour to avoid their final hearing being played out in front of the media. Only hours before the agreement was... read more

Last night the senior judge Mr Justice Coleridge made a speech to parliament in which he indicated that couples remaining married would be in the public interest. The judge stated that there needs to be a reaffirmation of marriage as the gold standard in society. He also stated that there... read more

The media storm surrounding the sad breakdown of the marriage between Peter Andre and Katie Price shows no sign of dying down. The last two weeks have seen allegations and counter-allegations and suggestions that Katie does not want a divorce but Peter is determined their relationship has... read more