According to data published recently by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the median duration of marriages ending in divorce was 13 years for opposite-sex couples in 2025 – the longest since the start of the time series in 1963. The same study showed that the rate of married couples divorcing before reaching their tenth […]

HMRC is increasing its compliance checks on family investment companies, with a particular focus on where personal wealth overlaps with the trusts and company structures that sit around it. The move comes as HMRC’s latest estimates put the overall tax gap, being the difference between the tax theoretically due and the amount actually collected, at […]

The recent Financial Remedies Court (FRC) decision in HJ v QY [2026] EWFC 245 (B) underscores the serious legal and financial consequences of non-cooperation and non-disclosure in matrimonial proceedings. Following three years of marriage, which produced a child (C), the applicant wife (W) issued her Form A seeking financial remedies in September 2023. The standard […]