Am I entitled to Maintenance now that I am getting Divorced?

Spousal Maintenance is often seen as a natural entitlement on Divorce, an assumed right, an income needed to secure the lifestyle the marriage has provided you and your family. Finances and children are the two major sources of anxiety together with uncertainty at the start of the separation process. However, how do you know whether you will be entitled to receive maintenance payments? When a...

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...