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What happens to the Engagement and Wedding Rings when a relationship breaks down?

Clients often ask us what will happen to their engagement ring on separation where they are unmarried and to their wedding rings on divorce.

The bitterest disputes are those which usually could have been avoided easily by taking the right steps at the right time.

This includes disputes about property between people who lived together in a relationship. This often relates to property which they jointly occupied but which, may be registered in the name of only one of them. 

On any application to court in relation to arrangements for children, the Judge will presume that the involvement of a parent in a child’s life will be positive and in the best interests of the child unless there is evidence to the contrary.

Children must always be protected from harm or the risk of harm.  It impacts badly on their welfare and development.

We have produced a short guide that explores the different stages of getting a financial remedy through the courts in the context of divorce or dissolution.

There are four stages and the guide looks at each of them in turn:

“I used to hope I was a great feminist role model because I work full-time often away from home.  I was the breadwinner, the high earner, the successful one………my husband’s work was no less important or interesting, but as a university lecturer, his was far less frenetic.  He was at home more and usually did all the cooking for the children.  He insisted on doing it anyway, at all times.