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It is a well-known fact that there is a sharp spike in the number of new divorce clients immediately after the Christmas and New Year period. Disastrous Christmas lunches and New Year's resolutions, to make a fresh start, are usually the predominant reasons.
Christmas has been and gone – a time where we should all have been full of cheer and John Lewis style love and warmth. However, for a lot of people the festive period was anticipated with dread.
People often ask me to recall humorous tales from the legal world, so I thought that today I would try to uplift our readers, rather than send you to sleep with my usual articles.
Did you know that there are two different types of Lasting Powers of Attorney? If you do – “top of the class”; if you didn’t know, well, you’re excused because most people do not know about the Health & Welfare Lasting Power of Attorney.
You have probably all heard or read about the recent divorce case that hit the headlines in early March, about an ex-wife being able to pursue her multi-millionaire ex-husband for financial support, some 27 years after separation, and 19 years after divorce. So what is all the fuss about?
Many of you will already be aware that Paula has for the past 15 years or so been holding a free legal clinic in Killay on Thursday afternoons.
Is your home leasehold? If so, do you know how many years are left remaining before ownership of your home reverts to the owner?
For over ten years I have been running a free legal clinic in Killay on Thursday afternoons.  For many years I ran this free legal clinic from a room in the Killay Tourist Information office until it closed a couple of years ago. 
So what is a Lasting Power of Attorney? It is a legal document prepared in writing which formally appoints someone else to legally act on your behalf in the event of you being unable to do so yourself.
Apparently almost one in five Divorce Petitions are now based on allegations that their spouses have done something inappropriate with someone else on Facebook.