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(Divorce) D Day Looms
1 January 2010 :: Reading Evening Chronicle

Divorce instructions hit their peak in January. “Divorce D Day”, the first working Monday after the New Year, or after children return to school, depending on which article you read, has become a fixture in the media calendar. However, it is not the day most individuals issue their petitions, although it might be when many pick up the ‘phone to their family law solicitor.

Getting divorced, for most folk, is not simply flicking a switch. Even those who are sure they want to issue immediately must be advised about the Law Society’s Family Law Protocol, the guide to good practice. This generally means that a draft petition is sent to one’s client’s spouse before issue, rather than court papers on the doormat heralding that they are being divorced.  The process has become more civilised than it was, although specialist lawyers appreciate how stressful it is for those going through it.

I attended a conference recently to consider the financial landscape and whether we could assume that we had regained “the sunlit uplands”. One thing was clear from the erudite speeches delivered by knowledgeable economists: there are no certainties but there is “reason to believe we will see a recovery from recession”. When, is another question.

Fortified by this news, although not a gambler by nature, I typed “bet on end of recession” into my favourite search engine. Alarmingly it delivered no results.

I learnt at the same conference that significant corporate IT spend is expected in the next couple of years. I am doing my bit by getting another laptop for the office as the team grows. It is less than two years since I got the original kit but, within that time two more operating systems have been introduced in that short period, Vista and Windows 7, as technology marches on. More research needed....

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