Reading the mainstream press at the weekend, you would think that the world is full of really contented divorcees who have fleeced their partners and are now moving on to lead rich and fulfilled lives. Spurred on by some of the extreme settlements that have been handed out by the London courts recently, the impression you get is that getting divorced [...]

As a woman reaches her menopause there are many questions she needs to ask about the types of treatments available and the good and bad points attributed to each of these. At Plan Free Mum we know some women prefer to cope naturally using diet, exercise and herbal remedies. Others prefer to take a different approach and HRT is becoming increasingly popular [...]

Here on Plan Free Mum we often get women on our forum asking how to recognise menopause symptoms. Whilst there are no hard and fast rules around age or severity of menopausal symptoms there are some guideline questions a woman can ask herself if she suspects she is entering that phase of her life.  Author Taryn Brava has written this [...]

A cream designed to protect babies from nappy rash has become the best selling skin care cream for women of all ages and skin types. It has, apparently, outsold all the other skincare brands at Waitrose, the supermarket which sells it, and de mand is growing! It is called, unremarkably,  Baby Bottom Butter and it’s simple  packaging and fantastic price (£2.54) [...]

A question from a colleague this week prompted me to do some research on property and how it is divided in a divorce. She had a friend who is facing pretty extreme demands from her ex-partner regarding two properties that they had owned together while they were married. Looking into how the law treats property, one of the most important [...]

We have been getting a lot of questions on our relationship forum from people who are going through a divorce but who are uncertain how their finances will be settled. Once the financial amounts have been agreed, it is pretty simple. If finances have been pooled the settlement is often a 50:50 split. More complex situations arise where future financial benefits [...]

Although divorce is never something to take lightly, record divorce settlements make regular headlines in our national papers and gossip magazines. It seems that we like to read about the payouts from the rich and famous to their spouses and to get a glimpse at the real size of their bank accounts. There is also a lot of debate in [...]

Anyone who is facing a divorce or seperation will know that finance is an important issue. Far many couples it can become the dominant issue, particularly if one partner uses access to finance as a means to punish another. While this is unfair it is quite common and it is something that features regularly in our relationship forum. The best [...]

Not everyone agrees with them, but there is no doubt that a quickie divorce saves a lot of pain for those involved. Some people seem to believe that making a divorce a tough thing to obtain is the right option for society, but for those in the middle of the upheaval, the quicker the better. Good information of quickie divorces [...]

The number of divorce cases is increasing every year and this is particularly true in the US, the UK and Australia. If you want to search the divorce records online it is important to know where to look. In the US, where state and county boundaries mean that records are not in one place, knowing the correct search procedure is [...]