The Scottish Government has recently reaffirmed its commitment to its named person service, but confirmed that it would not commence the related provisions of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 on 31 August, pending changes to the Act following the UK Supreme Court judgment in July. An order is required to stop commencement…
National Records of Scotland (NRS) has recently published ‘Scotland’s Population 2015 – the Registrar General’s Annual Review of Demographic Trends’, which gives an interesting insight into population and relationship trends across Scotland. With regards to relationships, the report on Scotland’s Population revealed that: There were 29,691 marriages in Scotland in 2015. Of these, 1,671 were…
According to a recent study from the US, financial factors such as a wife’s ability to support herself are not necessarily predictive of divorce. Instead, it is couples’ division of labour that is associated with the risk of divorce. The study, from Harvard University, compared couples married in 1974 or earlier with couples married in…
A former model, who was seeking £196 million as a divorce settlement from her ex-husband, has been awarded £53 million by the High Court in London, reports the BBC. When her own assets are added they bring the total settlement amount to around £75 million. Christina Estrada had been married to Sheikh Walid Juffali, a…
A recent study from America has found that when it comes to failing marriages, women are more likely to blame their spouse than men, but are also more likely to move on without regrets. The study, by legal search company Avvo Inc, revealed that when asked who was responsible for the end of their marriage,…
The news that actor Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard are to divorce after only 15 months of marriage has been widely reported in the media. The latest reports suggest that the couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement before getting married. Having a prenuptial agreement in place can be beneficial for many marriages,…
As many as 2.87 million people across the UK are living in relationships which would be described within clinical practice as distressed, according a new study by relationship charity Relate. This amounts to 18% of married or cohabiting couples and 1.4 million UK families. A distressed relationship is one with a severe level of relationship…
The proportion of people who believe couples shouldn’t have to get married before having children (35%) is, for the first time, almost the same as the proportion who believe marriage should come first (37%), according to new analysis of NatCen’s British Social Attitudes survey. Back in 1989, seven in ten people (70%) felt that couples…
A leading charity has called for Scotland’s “outdated” family law to be updated in an attempt to prevent children from being in the centre of bitter divorce battles and contests. Relationships Scotland called for Scottish divorce law to keep up the rest of UK law in making it mandatory for couples to seek mediation before…
A “wholesale review of Scottish family law” may be needed in the future according to a report from the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee. The report from the group comes following some concerns expressed about the effectiveness of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006. As part of the investigation into the effectiveness of the Family Law…
