Stephanie Coker

Stephanie Coker

Stephanie Coker is a barrister at FOURTEEN. She specialises in financial remedies following the breakdown of a relationship (including TOLATA matters)...

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BL v OR [2023] EWFC 229 (Fam)

Judgment date: 07 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/229.html Sir Jonathan Cohen. Final hearing involving a prenuptial agreement in circumstances where W had transferred her property, which amounted to W parting with the bulk of her assets. H was a wealthy man, and

TYB v CAR (Non-Disclosure) [2023] EWFC 261 (B)

Judgment date: 16 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/261.html DDJ Hodson. What does the court do with the non-discloser? Final hearing involving a short marriage with a child almost four. This was a needs case. H admitted earnings of £60,000 pcm, spending

Re Z (Prohibition on Cross-examination: No QLR) [2024] EWFC 22

Judgment date: 09 February 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/22.html Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. Judgment considering the approach that a judge or magistrate sitting in the Family Court should adopt when the court has directed that a Qualified Legal Representative

BR v BR [2024] EWFC 11

Judgment date: 30 January 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/11.html Peel J. When should a single joint expert (SJE) be instructed rather than two or more separately instructed experts in financial remedy proceedings? Both parties sought to separately instruct sole experts, one for each

When Is an Add-Back Not an Add-Back?

When Is an Add-Back Not an Add-Back?

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/244.html So-called ‘small money’ cases have historically been rarely published. However, the President’s Confidence and Confidentiality: Transparency in the Family Courts Report of 29 October 2021, in which he asked all judges to publish at least 10% of their

A Wife v A Husband [2023] EWFC 200

Judgment date: 09 November 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/200.html HHJ Willans. Financial remedy application involving a single issue, namely, what were W’s housing needs and how should those needs be funded. There had been a jurisdictional dispute between Italy and England, with

LT v ZU [2023] EWFC 179

Judgment date: 06 October 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/179.html HHJ Evans-Gordon. Substantive hearing following the father challenging an application by the mother to convert an arbitral award into an order of the court. See earlier decision in LT v ZU [2022] EWFC 206.