Busting divorce misconceptions for clients

General public’s divorce knowledge ‘patchy and often poor’

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Lawyer Rosa Alexander explores the rules and regulations of divorce and says clients need all the help they can get to understand the way it works in practice…

A recent study shows that the general public has a poor understanding of the laws which dictate how much a party is entitled to on divorce.  When asking more than 20,000 people to correctly identify ten true statements in relation to Financial Remedies and Children Law issues, the study by the University of Bristol found that on average only four-and-a-half statements were correctly identified. Only 1% of the group identified all ten statements correctly. Besides it being concerning that there is little understanding in relation to an area of law which affected about 80,000 people ...

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