As Family lawyers know only too well, it is not always easy for couples to remain calm and composed when they split up.

Thankfully, only a relatively small proportion of the relationships which we have any dealings with feature any rancour.

Those which do can be difficult for all concerned...

Technological advances bring with them many benefits, including the promise of a life which is simpler, quicker and better connected.

Things which, not so many years ago, seemed more the stuff of science fiction shows like 'Star Trek' or the hi-tech crystal ball-gazing of 'Tomorrow's World' have become hard -...

The distress when a single child goes missing is enormous for the families involved. Surely no-one can fail to have been moved by the continued efforts of Kate and Gerry McCann to trace their daughter, Madeleine, after she disappeared while on a family holiday in Portugal in 2007.

Imagine the...

Things are rarely straightforward when couples break up.

Even when there are no children involved, the process of unpicking home life can sometimes be complex and heartbreaking.

However, the issues presented by determining which parent a child should live with as well as the manner and frequency of the other...

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has published new figures on the scale of the problem of children being abducted by their parents and taken overseas. They reveal that, every other day, a British child is abducted by a parent to a country which has not signed the 1980...