Armstrong Family Law Solicitor

15/10/2026

Court orders that wife should recover £120 million share of family trust.

'Unprecedented' divorce judgment rules wife should take £120m share of family trust interest: The High Court has rejected a husband’s claim that his interests in family trusts worth billions of pounds shouldn’t be treated as matrimonial assets. In

05/10/2026

Utterly bizarre: “Mother” fakes two pregnancies and claims £30,000 in child maintenance.

A judge has ruled that the two children did not exist after the alleged father applied for joint custody of them

04/10/2026

My latest blog: Going it alone can be a false economy

https://www.armstrongfamilylaw.co.uk/news/going-it-alone-can-be-a-false-economy/

04/10/2026

The split of assets in this case is depicted as being unjust - but if the higher earner was a man and the lower earner was a woman, I would expect the same outcome.

https://msn.com/en-gb/news/other/i-married-an-artist-who-made-no-money-when-we-split-he-got-60-of-the-house/ar-AA2dpuTe?ctsrc=dgst&ocid=edgntpruby&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=6ac2436eb54041d090e130013ea108a6&uxmode=ruby&ei=76
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I’ve probably spent over £150,000 on him over the last 25 years if you add up the shopping, cars, boats, holidays

13/09/2026

“My ex-wife, the fugitive heiress who fled with our sons.”

Nishika Samaratunga took her children after losing a bitter custody battle. In his first interview, the father describes his fears for the boys’ safety

05/09/2026

My latest blog; the arguments against cohabitation law reform.

https://www.armstrongfamilylaw.co.uk/news/opponents-of-cohabitation-law-reform-have-their-say/

03/09/2026

Katie Price cannot have started a divorce application in England and Wales yet, as they only married in January. You have to be married for a year before a divorce application can be commenced.

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-09-02/katie-price-reportedly-files-for-divorce-from-husband-lee-andrews

25/08/2026

https://www.thetimes.com/money/tax/article/wife-hid-prenup-during-26-million-pound-divorce-n8j69386m

The woman took the signed agreement from her husband’s study out of fear that it would cut her share of his assets, a judge has ruled

20/08/2026

Worth noting that it is being proposed that cohabitants can opt out of the proposed new law by entering into a cohabitation agreement. No mention of that option in this article.

Modern family life can be complicated – and some see proposed changes to unmarried partners’ rights as ‘unwelcome meddling’

20/08/2026

https://todaysfamilylawyer.co.uk/consultation-responses-make-compelling-case-for-cohabitation-reform/

Consultation responses make ‘compelling’ case for cohabitation reform: Family lawyers have shared more responses to the government’s A Fairer End to Relationships consultation, which closed last week. Jo Edwards, head of