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NLJ this week: Children’s needs & parents’ wants

20 September 2024
Issue: 8086 / Categories: Legal News , Family , Divorce , Child law
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The recent case of footballer Kyle Walker and his girlfriend Lauryn Goodman is a useful illustration of the approach the courts will take in financial provision cases where the parties have not been married, write Samantha Farndale, partner at Stowe Family Law, and Tara Lyons, barrister at Pump Court Chambers, in this week’s NLJ

Both the Walker-Goodman dispute and the case of PS v CS (in which Farndale and Lyons represented the respondent father) highlight the family court’s focus in such cases.

Farndale and Lyons write that the cases ‘show the importance of understanding the genuine needs of the children so that they can be met, separated from financial leveraging of one parent against the other’.

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Dorsey & Whitney—Jonathan Christy

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Winckworth Sherwood—Kevin McManamon

Special education needs and mental capacity expert joins as partner

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