Butterworths Scottish Family Law Service
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Commentary
Source Currency: Issue 99, November 2025. The following chapters have been updated: A1: Getting married A2: Matrimonial property A4: Miscellaneous consequences of marriage A6: Termination and annulment of marriage and civil partnership D6: Arrestments against earnings D7: Attachment F1: Style 1 Divorce – adultery F2: Style 2 Divorce – behaviour F3: Style 3 Divorce – 1-year separation with consent – children under 16 years F4: Style 4 Divorce – 2-year separation– children under 16 F5: Style 5 Initial writ – divorce – financial craves – transfer of property order – capital sum – pension order with sample averments – periodical allowance – interim aliment F6: Style 6 Applications for protective orders F7: Style 7 Cohabiting couple F8: Style 8 Children (Scotland) Act 1995 – residence/contact/specific issue orders F12: Style 12 Variation of separation agreement F13: Style 13 Matrimonial home – dispensing with non-entitled spouse's consent to dealing H1: Introduction H2: Earnings-Replacement Benefits H3: Income-Related Benefits H4: Benefits for children and Disability Benefits H5: People in Special Circumstances H6: Administration of Benefits H7: Information Resources, Advice and Representation.
Contributors
| Megan Davidson, Advocate | Editor |
| Melanie Barbour, Advocate | Editor |
| Amy Donachie, Advocate | Editor |
| Mark Allison, Advocate | Editor |
| Kirsty Hood, LLB (Hons), Dip LP Advocate, Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh | Editor |
| Robert Gilmour, Director SKO Family Law Specialists | Editor |
| Brian Kearney, MA, LLB Solicitor, Formerly Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin at Glasgow | Editor |
| Frank Burr, Advocate | Editor |
| Sarah Trainer, Advocate | Editor |
| Shona Smith, Partner, Family Law Team Balfour+Manson LLP | Editor |
| Janys M Scott KC, MA (Cantab), Advocate | Editor |
| Iain Halliday, Advocate | Editor |
| John Speir, LLB, Advocate, Sheriff of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway at Hamilton | General editor |
| Sabrina Dubash LLB, Barrister | Editor |
| Dr Alex Critchley, Advocate | Editor |
| Sandra M Eden, LLB, ATII Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Edinburgh | Editor |
