A Practical Guide to Family Proceedings: Blomfield and Brooks 7th ed

This court practice guide enables you to avoid the most common pitfalls encountered across the spectrum of family proceedings, thereby speeding up litigation and avoiding unnecessary work and wasted costs orders.

It covers every aspect of the court process across family proceedings, from divorce and financial remedies to private law and public law children, injunctions and committals and appeals. The guidance is set out with clear references to source materials and is supplemented by forms and other practical information.

The work is a key staple widely referred to within the Family Court, Principal Registry of the Family Division, other district registries and county courts.

The 7th edition includes the following:

• Divorce reform Changes to Committal proceedings
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (inc PD 12J and Rule 3A)
• Presumption of diminished evidence and vulnerability of witnesses (PD 3A)
• Jurisdiction issues Parental alienation International adoption

table of content

Chapter 1: The Divorce Petition

Chapter 2: Requirements on Issue of Petition

Chapter 3: Procedure – From Issue of Petition to Application for Decree Nisi

Chapter 4: Answer and Subsequent Pleadings

Chapter 5: Judicial Involvement Leading to Decree Nisi

Chapter 6: Decree Absolute

Chapter 7: Concluding Applications Other than by Decree or Final Order

Chapter 8: Other Matrimonial Decrees

Chapter 9: Declaratory Decrees

Chapter 10: Civil Partnership

Chapter 11: Applications for a Financial Order with Proceedings under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and the Civil Partnership Act 2004

Chapter 12: Other Financial Applications

Chapter 13: Children and Financial Applications

Chapter 14: Financial Applications Governed by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

Chapter 15: Procedures for the Enforcement of Financial and Costs Orders

Chapter 16: Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders

Chapter 17: Jurisdiction in Child Proceedings

Chapter 18: Children – Private Law Issues

Chapter 19: Enforcement of Children Act Orders

Chapter 20: Locating the Whereabouts of a Child

Chapter 21: Wardship and Child Abduction

Chapter 22: Public Law for the Private Law Practitioner

Chapter 23: Family Homes and Domestic Violence

Chapter 24: Emergency Applications

Chapter 25: Penal Notices, Undertakings and Committal Applications

Chapter 26: Court Bundles

Chapter 27: Expert Witnesses in Family Proceedings

Chapter 28: Vulnerable Witnesses in Family Proceedings

Chapter 29: Appeals

Chapter 30: The Court Record