Holyrood’s Justice Committee recently published a review of the Family Law Scotland Act 2006 and concluded that a complete review of Scots family law may be necessary in the next session of Parliament.
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A recent Court of Session case has demonstrated the importance of Guardianship Orders when someone becomes unable to take care of their own affairs.
...Last week the Scottish Government published the Strategic Framework for Action on Palliative Care and pledged that palliative care will be available to every Scot, regardless of the patient’s age, diagnosis or postcode. The Scottish Government has invested £3.5 million in this policy and have set out their plans for the next 5 years.
...Succession law is an area of law that we can all be sure we’ll come into contact with. At some point, most of us will inherit from parents or a spouse and we will all leave something behind when we die.
...From 1st January 2014 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) will discontinue its service of depositing foreign marriage and civil partnership certificates with the General Register Offices in the UK. British nationals overseas will need to make their own arrangements for the safekeeping of these certificates, as they do for other important documents.
...The stereotype of adolescence as a time of storm and strife with parents is far from accurate, according to a family trends report released by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
...People often decide to make changes in their life at the start of each calendar year. Each year our family law solicitors see an increase in enquiries at the start of the year from people who have decided they want to move their life in a different direction or whose partner has chosen to do so.
...We aim to provide an exceptional level of service to clients needing family law advice in Glasgow and surrounding areas. Our news section will play an important role in keeping you advised of important new developments in family law matters. These changes may have a direct impact on your situation. Our solicitors constantly monitor changes in the law to ensure we provide the best advice to you.
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