‘A Fairer End to Relationships? Some Reflections on the Core Principles of the Government’s Proposals to Reform the Law of Financial Remedies on Divorce’

In June 2026, the Ministry of Justice published ‘A fairer end to relationships’, an unusually wide-ranging consultation considering reforms to the law of financial remedies on divorce, and to the position of cohabitants on relationship breakdown and on death. Graham Fraser has summarised the consultation here. This piece focuses on the central principles of the proposed reforms to financial remedies law: a starting point of sharing matrimonial property, with the possibility of a departure from an equal division where this is required to meet needs … (more)

[Anna Heenan, Financial Remedies Journal, 28 July 2026]

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