The International Family Law Group LLP (IFLG) is delighted to announce that Natalie Sutherland has joined the firm as a Partner. Natalie is widely recognised as a leader in modern family law, with particular expertise in UK and international surrogacy, legal parentage, known donor and platonic co-parenting agreements, embryo storage,
The International Family Law Group represented the successful respondent mother in the recent case of Re B [2025] EWHC 2144 (Fam). The case serves as an important reminder for families moving between countries, where the consent of one parent to the move comes into question. Background The case concerned the
The Court of Appeal has now handed down its judgment in the matter of Re S (Wardship: Removal to Ghana) [2025] EWCA Civ 1011. This high-profile and widely-reported matter relates to a 14 year old young man, who was deceived by his parents into travelling to Ghana, leaving him, effectively,
The President has published useful guidance for judges on how they might inform children of the reasons for their decisions¶ On 26 February 2025 Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, published a toolkit entitled “Writing to children – A toolkit for judges”. It was produced in conjunction with
The International Family Law Group welcomes a significant decision from the Court of Appeal in a complex and widely reported international family law case concerning a teenage boy at the centre of a cross-border dispute between his parents. The case, which has drawn national and international attention with coverage in
The International Family Law Group represented the appellant mother in the recent Court of Appeal case of Re O (Summary Return: Non-Convention Country) [2025] EWCA Civ 660. The case serves important reading for practitioners of international children law, and highlights the intricacies involved in applications for return to non-Hague Convention
The International Family Law Group LLP are pleased to launch their new family maintenance indexation calculator. The calculator is a free online tool designed to help people calculate annual indexation changes to family maintenance orders. The app allows calculations to be performed based on the consumer prices index (CPI), the
What are Marital Agreements? A Marital Agreement (sometimes also called a Nuptial Agreement) is an agreement entered into between two parties during their relationship (which can either be before or after their marriage), which sets out their intentions as to what should happen to their assets in the event they
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/379 ‘There is a common misconception that the use of arbitration, as an alternative to the court process in financial remedy cases, is the purview only of the rich who seek privacy, away from the courts and the eyes of the media. If that was ever the position, it is
The International Family Law Group LLP represented the applicant father in his application seeking the return of his daughter from a non-Hague country, in a case that has been reported as Re A (A Child) (Removal to non-Hague country) [2023] EWFC 330 and Re A (A Child) (Removal to non-Hague
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The International Family Law Group LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England (company number OC362777) whose registered office is at Octagon Point, 5 Cheapside, St Paul’s, London EC2V 6AA. A list of the members of the LLP is displayed at the above address together with a list of those individuals designated as partners who are not members of the LLP. We are a firm of solicitors practicing in the UK. As solicitors we are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA ID: 560727) and are subject to the Solicitors Code of Conduct 2011
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