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How Cohabitation Reform Could Reduce Pressure on Public Finances
Following the UK general election in 2024, the Government has gone on record various times since to confirm that a public consultation will be issued later this year to strengthen the rights and protections available to women in cohabiting couples. In this article, Graeme Fraser sets out why legislating for and implementing reform should be a no brainer in terms of the money it could save for the UK economy.
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- Cohabitation
!30/05/2025 08:00
Prenups Aren’t ‘Sign and Done’: Why Reviews Matter Just as Much as the Ring
Elizabeth Bowden is a big fan of prenuptial/pre-civil partnership agreements (‘prenups’) because, at the very least, both parties are forced to have really open and transparent conversations about money, finances, goals and aspirations. Anyone looking to make marriage/civil partnership vows should do this before they sign on the dotted line.
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- Pre-Nuptial Agreements
!28/05/2025 14:00
Sham, Adverse Inferences and the Burden of Proof: Awolowo [2025] EWCA Civ 641
It’s often the financial remedy cases involving non-family barristers or judges which are the most interesting. There’s something about an outsider’s perspective which can illuminate legal principle and remind us that, per Mostyn J, ‘the Family Courts are not a desert island’.
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- Burden Of Proof
- Adverse Inferences
- Sham
!21/05/2025 14:00
NCDR Update – Are the Tides Turning for Failing to Mediate?
Looking back over the last 12 months, 29 April 2024 was an important day for financial remedy practitioners. This was the date the rules concerning NCDR changed. The changes make ignoring the NCDR options a costs hazard. It seemed inevitable that costs orders would follow.
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!20/05/2025 12:05
Legal Research, AI and the Canary in the Mineshaft
One of the sobering experiences of training to be a lawyer – the dawning realisation that it isn’t all dramatic cross-examination and fighting for the underdog – is legal research. Like learning a new language (let’s say, German), it’s a long and often tedious process. Some trainees, admittedly, seem to enjoy the tedium more than others. I was firmly in the ‘not enjoying this tedium’ camp.
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- AI
!09/05/2025 09:04
Latest cases
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AB v CD & Ors [2025] EWFC 95813 February 2025
HHJ Richard Williams. Judgment following a trial of a preliminary issue in financial remedy proceedings to determine (a) if a transfer of shares was made with the intention to defeat a claim for financial relief and should therefore be set aside and (b) if a loan had been made and, if so, if it had since been waived.
- Cases
- Loans
- Valuations
- Trusts
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SM v BA (No 2: Maintenance Pending Suit) [2025] EWFC 2819 February 2025
Nicholas Allen KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application to increase maintenance pending suit (MPS) in ‘super-rich’ financial remedies case.
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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DSD v MJW (Costs of MPS) [2025] EWFC 119 (B)24 April 2025
DDJ David Hodson. Proportionality and maintenance pending suit (MPS), a cautionary tale. In this case the DDJ concluded that the game was very much not worth the candle, and the application turned out to be very costly for the applicant wife.
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
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VTY v GDB [2025] EWFC 110 (B)24 April 2025
Recorder Taylor. Final hearing in a financial remedy application which concerned issues of non-disclosure and allegations of asset concealment in different countries. The matter also involved foreign litigation which appeared to undermine the existing proceedings in this jurisdiction. The parties married in 1999 and have two adult children and one aged 16. The family structure was a traditional one with H being the breadwinner and W the homemaker.
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- Foreign Assets
- Non-Disclosure
- Chattels
- Adverse Inferences
- School Fees
- Fraud
- Costs
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Debts
- Foreign Judgments
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GH v IH [2025] EWFC 120 (B)10 April 2025
District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing on enforcement and variation of 2012 financial remedy order. The primary issue to be determined was the enforcement and variation of a joint lives periodical payments order made in 2012.
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- Periodical Payments
- Variation
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Needs
- Enforcement
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