Polly Morgan | Case Editor

Polly Morgan | Case Editor

Polly Morgan is the sole author of the textbook Morgan's Family Law (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2024) as well as the author of a number of Law...

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Dignam-Thomas and Bebbington v McCourt and Another (Inheritance Act 1975) [2023] EWHC 546 (Fam)

Judgment date: 14 March 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/546 Theis J. Application by two sisters in parlous financial and physical health for reasonable financial provision from their father’s estate, the estate having been left to their brother. Application was limited by 1975 Act to

MN v AN [2023] EWHC 613 (Fam)

Judgment date: 10 March 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/613.html Moor J. H’s application that W show cause why she should not be held to the terms of a 2005 (pre-Radmacher) prenuptial agreement. H’s premarital assets £32.5 million and W’s

Teasdale v Carter and Teasdale [2023] EWHC 490 (Fam)

Judgment date: 07 March 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/490 Moor J. Appeal in farming estoppel case with astronomical costs far exceeding the value of the property in question. The first respondent, Ms Carter, was the elder daughter of the appellant mother and second respondent father.

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up: October to December 2022

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up: October to December 2022

A sad tale’s best for winter, so we start with October’s Supreme Court decision in Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27. As with other leading estoppel cases, it concerned a farm and a promise of inheritance, in reliance on which the claimant undertook decades of work on the

Re P (Service on Parent in a Refuge) [2023] EWHC 471

Judgment date: 20 March 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/471 McFarlane P. Guidance from President of Family Division on service of legal documents on a person thought to be living in a refuge. FPR 2010 does not address this. In this case, W was in a

DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 6

Judgment date: 10 January 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/6 HHJ Madeleine Reardon. Finding of economic abuse and consideration of whether it met the level of s 25 conduct. Parties aged 49 (W) and 59 (H), married 1994, separated 2018, children adults. Marriage void for W’s

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648

Judgment date: 14 December 2022 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/1648.html Lewison, Andrews and Nugee LJJ. Second appeal on whether detriment remained a requirement of a constructive trust, given not mentioned in either Stack or Kernott. Unmarried couple, house in joint names. On separation, parties