Separation and Divorce

Josepha Madigan, family law Solicitor and TD, has introduced a Private Members Bill to allow the time that you have to be living apart from your spouse before you can apply for a divorce from four years to two. This…

THE HIGH Court has delivered a judgment that is likely to change the way in which separated and divorced spouses are provided for following the death of either party. A judgment delivered recently by Mr Justice Michael Peart means it…

Twelve tips from a family law solicitor. By John Hearne Celebrities do messy divorce like no one else. When his Spanish-born wife Mati initiated divorce proceedings against celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, the whole thing quickly degenerated into an unseemly…

THAT'S MEN:Marriage age is at its highest since the 1940s IN THE 1960s and 1970s, a fellow who courted a girl for 10 years or more was a figure of fun. Frankie Byrne, Ireland’s favourite agony aunt at the time,…

There has been a slowdown in the rate of increase of cohabiting couples, and Ireland still has one of the highest birth rates in Europe THE TRADITIONAL Irish family remains remarkably stable, with the numbers getting married on the rise…

Couples can dismantle their relationships in a civilised manner by adopting a ‘positive plan’ for separation, writes SHEILA WAYMAN ‘BREAKING UP is hard to do. . .” We can all sing along with feeling to the Neil Sedaka song. Separation…

Neutral citation (2011) IESC 40 Supreme Court Judgment was delivered on October 19th, 2011, by the Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Susan Denham, Mr Justice John Murray, Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman, Mr Justice Nial Fennelly and Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan concurring.…

THE PROBLEM:James (45) was married for 15 years but his relationship “ground to a halt” last year. He has three children with his wife, and over the past few years, the strain of debt, unemployment, illness, depression, loss of intimacy…