Family law in London concerns the law describing to family matters in England and UK. Family law concerns a host of authorities, agencies and groups which join in or influence the result of private disputes or social decisions concerning family law. Such a vision of family law may be regarded as assisting the thoughtful of the context in which the law works and to designate the policy areas where improvements can be made.

The UK is consist of three jurisdictions: Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England and Wales. Each has quite dissimilar systems of family law and courts. Family law encompasses divorce, adoption, warship, child kidnap and parental responsibility. It can also be public law or private law. Family law cases are heard in county courts and family proceedings
courts (magistrates’ court), both of which function under codes of Family Procedure Rules. There is also a professional division of the High Court of Justice, the Family Division which hears family law cases.

The law intends to modernise divorce and to move slightly towards “no fault” divorce from the fault-based move towards of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. The main part of the Act, dealing with divorce, was not continued with after pilot schemes found that it did not work well.

Part I of the Act sets out the philosophical come up to to divorce.

Part II set out a procedure for divorce which vital spouses seeking divorce to go to a preliminary Information Session and to seek negotiation as a first step. Part II and linked sections of other parts were repealed and incompletely replaced by section 18 of the Children and Families Act 2014 after they were discarded in practice in 1999.

Part III of the act concerns provision of legal aid for intervention in family law and divorce

Part IV lay down t the mechanisms and ethics connected to family house (in particular Family Law Act home rights Notices affecting land), profession orders, non-molestation instructions and domestic violence orders and principles. Sections 30 and 31 concern the award of a statutory licence to engage a home.

Part IVA include provisions connected to forced marriage.

The divorce sections of the Act inward a great deal of media debate and criticism, with some seeing the new approach to divorce as hopeful “quickie” divorces (although in practice, a faultbased divorce under the old scheme could be finished much quicker than under this Act). The political commentator Anne McElvoy greeted the desertion of the Act’s divorce sections considering the wide waiting periods and necessary mediation as an invasive compromise among a suitable “no fault” divorce system and the needs of “family fundamentalists”.