Joanne Major, Principal of Major Family Law, the North East’s leading family law solicitors, states in the North East Times:
The law that I would like to see changed/amended is …
Until 2010, if a husband or wife felt that their spouse wasn’t being honest about identifying their assets on divorce, they could resort to “self help” tactics. This meant that they could snoop around the house looking for paperwork that their spouse had “forgotten” to hand over. This was changed by the Court of Appeal, it is now unlawful for a spouse to look at documents that they haven’t been given authority to look at. This is referred to as a “cheat’s charter”, allowing dishonest people to hide assets during divorce.