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New reduced waiting time for Divorce introduced on 1st December 2019

By: Keith Walsh
Posted on: 03-Dec-2019
Keith Walsh is a family law solicitor and author of Divorce and Judicial Separation Proceedings in the Circuit Court:A Guide to Order 59 published by Bloomsbury Professional in 2019. He is the immediate past chairman of the Law Society’s Family and Child Law Committee.

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Divorce referendum 'to ask voters if politicians should have power to decide on 'pause period''

By: Keith Walsh
Posted on: 26-Feb-2019
Our Keith Walsh welcomes this recent announcement by Minister for Justice that referendum to reduce waiting time for Divorce will be held at the end of May 2019.

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Divorce Referendum 2019: Positive and sensible reform proposals promise an end to the divorce trap

By: Keith Walsh
Posted on: 30-Jan-2019
Dublin solicitor Keith Walsh, chair of the Law Society of Ireland’s child and family law committee, writes for Irish Legal News on the government’s announcement of a divorce referendum in May 2019. The confirmation by Ministers Flanagan and Madigan that the referendum to reduce the waiting time for divorce is to go ahead at the end of May 2019 finally brings Irish divorce law into the 21st century and marks a very humane approach to this complex area of law.

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