Amazon.com description: Product Description: A straightforward guide for all family lawyers, this book is equally useful as an aide-memoir for the hard-pressed, experienced practitioner and as an introductory text for the newly qualified. It will enable the busy practitioner to avoid the most common pitfalls encountered when following procedure and preparing documents for presentation to the court, thereby avoiding unnecessary work and the possibility of incurring a wasted costs order, while contributing to speeding up the whole process. It offers step-by-step guidance through the procedures encountered in everyday practice and in respect of many less common applications. Fully up-to-date to take into account the ancillary relief pilot scheme and including precedents and forms, this book will prove an essential reference for the busy British family lawyer.