Should the Process of Divorce be Removed from the Courts?
President of the High Court Family Division Sir James Munby is calling for a radical overhaul of the law to recognise the changing state of families in England and Wales. The intentions of these changes include providing cohabitees with the same legal rights as married couples and removing a sense of blame from divorce. The President has suggested that divorce could be removed from the court system completely, enabling officials to dissolve marriages instead of judges, in much the same way as registration of births and deaths is handled out of court. The proposed changes intend to reflect the changing face of the traditional nuclear family. Rising numbers of single parents, unmarried parents, step-families and same-sex ...
