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PARENTING CLASSES FOR EVERYONE
In May, the Government announced a £5 million scheme, known as "Can Parent”, and which would provide parents of children under the age of five years with £100 of vouchers to be spent on purchasing lessons from independent organisations, such as the National Child Care Trust. The vouchers...
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WHY COMPROMISING CAN SAVE YOU MONEY AND STRESS
A typical street of two up, two down cottages, in a typical town, down your way and mine, holds an interesting reflection of life, love and economics. House 1 - For sale by commercial vendor (we know what that means). It is being sold for £x, having been purchased three years earlier for...
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DIVORCES IN ENGLAND AND WALES 2010
Key findings of the latest statistics shows that the number of divorces in England and Wales in 2010 was 119,589, an increase of 4.9% since 2009, when there were 113,949 divorces. In 2010, the number of divorcing people per thousand was 11.1 but in the previous year 10.5. 22% of marriages...
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Court Rules On Unmarried Couples' Property Rights
The highest Court in England and Wales recently ruled in a case where a man left his partner nearly twenty years ago and whom had been claiming half the value of the joint property they had previously shared. His partner had been in occupation and solely paid the mortgage for thirteen years....
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Keeping The Peace
One particularly noticeable effect of the current economic climate and reduction in house prices/saleability has been the introduction of the "pipes of peace” (a la Paul McCartney). Those of a certain age will recall this song and accompanying video highlighting the Christmas Day truce in...
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