Subjects:

Family Law

Contents:

Part A: Essential Procedural Information

Application to First Appointment

First Appointment

First Appointment to Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR)

Financial Dispute Resolution

FDR to Final Hearing

Final Hearing

Application for Schedule 2 Order

Directions/Interim Hearing

Pension Sharing Welfare Reform and Pension Act 1999 (WRPA 1999)

Costs

Trusts of Land & Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, s 14 (TLATA 1996)

Child Support Act 1991 and the New Regime

Civil Partnership Act –

Ancillary Relief

Part B: Statutory Materials

Debtors Act 1869

Married Women’

s Property Act 1882

Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act 1958

Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970

Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1970

Matrimonial Causes Act 1973

Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’

Court Act 1978

Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984

Children Act 1989

[Section 15 and Sched 1]

Child Support Act 1991 [ss 1–

12, 14, 54,55]

Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996

Family Law Act 1996

Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999

Family Proceedings Rules 1991

Civil Procedure Rules 1998 [Parts 1 –

3, 32–

35, 40, 43–

44, 47–

48, 52]

Rules of the Supreme Court [Orders 31 and 99]

County Court Rules [Orders 13, 15, 20, 22, 25, 29, 37]

Pension Rules (Pension Sharing) [SI 2000/1052, SI 2000/1049, SI 2000/1048, SI 2000/1123]

Part C: Essential Financial Information and Tables

Retail Price Index

Interest base rate

Income tax

Table of personal tax reliefs

Tax credits

Social security and non-taxable state benefits

Taxable benefits

Non-taxable benefits

National insurance contributions

Pension provision from 6 April

Personal pension schemes, stakeholder pensions and retirement annuities

Stamp taxes

Cars, vans and related benefits

Car fuel benefits

Halifax mortgage rate changes

Salary by region

Salary by sector

Accumulating

Discounting

Gross salary and net income

Life expectancies

Annuity rates

Duxbury tables

Cost rules

Index.

Family Finance in Practice is a practical, portable reference source on practice and procedure relating to finance proceedings in the family court.

Ideal for the family finance specialist, the book contains concise, up-to-date and expert commentary on practice and procedure, as well as providing all the relevant statutory material necessary for conducting financial applications on the breakdown of a family, fully annotated.

The book also fully covers the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and provides all the key financial information you need for family court practice in one handy textbook.