Talk:Residence in English family law

Article rename
I've added an intro para to article because residence is a term used in various English laws and a term also understood in Common Law but residence is a different thing in each context. Sometimes a very different thing. I suggest the article should be renamed from "Residence in English law" to "Residence in English family law". Paul Beardsell 18:25, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


 * My philosophy is that, as and when someone else writes another meaning into an existing page or writes another page, we can consider the naming issue. Actually, I usually deal with the matter by adding a header linking to the new page(s) or to a dab page. I think it would be premature to rename now, particularly as the name is becoming increasingly long. I have also restored the capitals to Family Law. I know that I am old-fashioned in such matters but it is inconsistent to capitalise Family Court, Order, etc., and not to capitalise the law topic. David91 02:46, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

David, whereas you think you are old fashioned I think you are using a German style of capitalisation. Now, I may not be correct in every instance where I have removed the capitalisation but I am sure I am right in most of them and pretyy sure on the rest of them. E.g. "family law" is not capitalised for the same reason that "physical chemistry" is not. "Children Act" is capitalised because it is the proper name of an actual law. "English law" has the same capitalisation as "English cheese". Paul Beardsell 05:40, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

As to the article rename issue: The problem is that I came to this article because I was looking for information on residence vs domicile as defined in English (taxation) law. So there is an issue. Paul Beardsell 05:40, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, styles and fashions change on capitalisation and I do not really care that much so can agree to adopt whatever you think is appropriate. I have already contributed to domicile (law) for the purposes of Conflict (sorry about the capitalisation, but it helps to show I am talking about the subject) but that will not assist you. As to the Revenue's rules on what constitutes residence: if you would care to write a page, we can call it residence (ltaxation) and rename this page residence (family law). Alternatively, add the tax material to this page. Renaming in anticipation of some future work seems premature but, again, I really do not care very much one way or the other and, if you want to move the page, feel free. David91 06:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Moved accordingly. Paul Beardsell 06:25, 16 April 2006 (UTC)