Work has finally begun on a review of the laws governing finances on divorce – but a consultation on proposed reforms does not appear likely to emerge until 2025 at the earliest.
A year after the government promised a review would be coming ‘within a matter of weeks’, the Law Commission today announced that it has begun preliminary work on the project. The commission aims to publish a ‘scoping paper’ in September 2024. Scoping papers are part of the ‘pre-consultation’ phase of a law reform project, which means a consultation on proposed reforms is unlikely to appear until at least 2025.
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