Katie Stephens

Katie Stephens

Katie Stephens is a family barrister at St Philips Chambers, where she practises primarily in the Midlands. She acts in all area of family law including financial remedies, TLATA and children.

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DF v YB (No 2: Costs) [2025] EWFC 76 (B)

Judgment date: 31 March 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/76 Mr Nicholas Allen KC. Application for costs following a final hearing. Facts On 14 February 2025, Nicholas Allen KC handed down judgment in relation to the final hearing, which is published as DF v YB [2025]

Collardeau v Fuchs & Anor [2025] EWFC 36

Judgment date: 19 February 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/36 Poole J. Finding of a sham lease within enforcement proceedings of a final financial remedy order. Facts A final order was made in June 2023, followed by a series of enforcement orders by Knowles J. An application

PM v RM [2025] EWFC 11

Judgment date: 20 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/11 Mr Justin Warshaw KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. Application for maintenance pending suit, a legal services payment order and an injunction in a high value financial remedy case. Facts W (45) and H (68)

MacQueen v MacQueen [2024] EWFC 400 (B)

Judgment date: 09 February 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/400 District Judge Ashby. Final hearing concerning an application for a final financial remedy order in proceedings concerning serious findings of non-disclosure. Facts W (34) and H (30) married in July 2016. Both parties were made bankrupt

SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 7

Judgment date: 10 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/7 Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Facts Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings. W’s LSPO application was for H to meet the costs of

SV v AV [2024] EWFC 86 (B)

Judgment date: 07 February 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/86.html DJ Ashworth. Final financial remedy hearing involving the weight to be attached to a pre-nuptial agreement, non-matrimonial and matrimonial property, and the computation of assets. Facts Wife (aged 42) and husband (aged 52) married

V v V (Financial Remedy Hearing) [2024] EWFC 255 (B)

Judgment date: 06 September 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/255 HHJ Willans. Three-day final financial remedy hearing involving the computation of the assets available for distribution including properties in India. This case focused on the calculation of the assets available for distribution and the approach that