Can I Capitalise Child Maintenance?

I was asked this question recently in mediation. As a mediator my immediate response was “ you can look to do whatever you both agree and we can then look to see how we package the law around this” However as a lawyer I had resounding alarm bells given you simply cannot have what we call a financial clean break  from our children and therefore no matter what financial arrangement you come up...

So what’s happened in a year of lockdown?

It’s now just over 12 months since Covid lockdown began. This time last year most of Europe was in lockdown, if not most of the world and our cities were like ghost towns standing on the precipice looking down at the unknown. How little did we realise at that point 12 months on lockdown would still be so prevalent in our lives. Sadly the last 12 months has taken its toll on family life....