Family Law and Divorce - with Cate Maguire

Cate is a Senior Associate at Kingsley Napley and spoke to us about what’s involved when parents divorce.  

We covered: 

• The 3 strands to a divorce – the divorce itself, the finances, the children. 
• No fault divorce and what it is / what it means. 
• What happens when courts get involved in terms of making an order about how the children spend their time between parents and whether there is any flexibility. 
• Particular patterns of how to share the care of children that Cate would recommend to parents. 
• How long the divorce process can take particularly when children are involved. 
• Mediation and how that works as part of the process. 
• What happens if you aren’t married and have children but want to separate.  
• Whether there is such a thing as common law marriage in the UK. 
• Child maintenance, what it is and how it is calculated (link below). 
• Cate’s tips for communicating your breakup with your child/ren and managing the relationship going forward.  
• Cate’s tips for trying to avoid an acrimonious divorce including making sure you have lots of people and systems around to support you both. 
• Having goals in place for the future with your children and the importance of communicating these to your lawyer.  
• Pre-nups / post-nups – the law around these and how they work. 

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Kingsley Napley Family Law - https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/insights/blogs/family-law-blog 

About Cate - https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/our-people/cate-maguire 

Child maintenance calculator - https://www.gov.uk/calculate-child-maintenance 

One of the Apps Cate recommends – Our Family Wizard   

Our co-parenting blog - https://www.bespokefamily.co.uk/blog/coparenting 

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