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Vince v Vince: Every Cloud Has a Green Lining
On Friday, 17 January 2024, Mr Justice Cusworth handed down the judgment of *Vince v Vince* [2024] EWFC 389 (Fam), which addresses a number of pertinent issues concerning business valuations, arguments over the duration of the marital partnership and whether pre- or post-marital endeavour warrants a departure from the sharing principle. This article aims to summarise the main points and issues raised by both parties, together with some helpful guidance provided by Cusworth J.
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- Expert Business Valuations
- Marital-Partnership
- Pre and Post-Marital Endeavour
26/03/2025
Pre-Nuptial Agreements: an ‘Oven-Ready’ Solution to a Pressing Problem? A House of Lords Debate
Late last month, Baroness Deech brought a motion in the House of Lords, ‘That this House takes note of the law relating to prenuptial agreements’. The debate came against the backdrop of Baroness Deech having (of course) long pursued financial remedies reform through her Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill.
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- Pre-Nuptial Agreements
13/03/2025
Stamp Duty Land Tax and Divorce
This is sometimes the forgotten tax on divorce. Maybe this is fair enough as there is a pretty clear exemption in tax law that states that stamp duty land tax (SDLT) will not apply to transfers pursuant to divorce.
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- Stamp Duty
- Tax
- Land
10/02/2025
What to Do Where One Spouse Will Not Co-operate with a Court-Ordered Sale?
The recently reported case of WZ v HZ [2024] EWFC 407 (B) (1 May 2024) provides guidance on how to manage the common occurrence of one spouse holding out in the family home despite an order for sale.
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- Sale of Property
06/02/2025
Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?
In Rossi v Rossi [2007] 1 FLR 790 Nicholas Mostyn QC adopted a formulaic approach in relation to ‘a post-separation bonus or other earned income’. He stated that ‘[a]lthough there is an element of arbitrariness’ he would not allow a post-separation bonus to be classed as non-matrimonial ‘unless it related to a period which commenced at least 12 months after the separation’.
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- Post-Separation Accrual
05/02/2025
Latest cases
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D Culligan v A Culligan (No.2) (Costs and Anonymity) [2025] EWFC 2626 February 2025
Judgment dealing solely with the issues of costs and whether the substantive judgment in the financial remedies proceedings handed down on 14 January 2025 should be anonymised.
- Cases
- Anonymity and Transparency
- Costs
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Collardeau v Fuchs & Anor [2025] EWFC 3619 February 2025
Poole J. Finding of a sham lease within enforcement proceedings of a final financial remedy order.
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- Setting Aside Transactions
- Enforcement
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Sandeep Kumar Chugh v Latika Chugh [2025] EWFC 424 March 2025
Nicholas Allen KC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). Final hearing concerning H’s application for recognition of divorce proceedings brought by H in India, and H’s challenge to the jurisdictional basis of divorce proceedings brought in the UK by W.
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- Family Law Act 1986
- Jurisdiction
- Stay Pending Resolution of Overseas Proceedings
- Stay of Proceedings
- Non-Recognition of Overseas Divorce
- International Enforcement
- Recognition of Indian Divorce
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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FI v DO [2024] EWFC 384 (B)20 December 2025
District Judge Crisp. Final Hearing in FR case involving which party should keep the family dog, a golden retriever puppy, ‘N’.
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AN v NO [2024] EWFC 949 May 2024
Sir Jonathan Cohen. Jurisdiction dispute concerning (i) whether the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction to entertain W’s divorce application; and (ii) whether, if there is jurisdiction, England and Wales is the forum conveniens.
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
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