Cases
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HK v SS [2025] EWFC 5 (B)14 January 2025
HHJ Simmonds, National Lead Judge for Divorce. Guidance on when a delay between conditional order being made, and application for a final order, is delay sufficient to cause the court to question whether a final order should be made.
- Cases
- Setting Aside a Decree Nisi
- Divorce Orders
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ST v AR [2025] EWFC 49 January 2025
HHJ Vincent (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Final hearing in a high-value case. Court making findings on whether H’s large inheritance had been matrimonialised, W’s entitlement to a second home, and who should be awarded the family home.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Needs
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V v V [2024] EWFC 380 (B)19 December 2024
HHJ Booth. Appeal from a final order in a modest asset case, in which the court was tasked with balancing the needs of a party suffering from a serious disability and the needs of the primary carer of the children of the family.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Appeals
- Mesher Orders and Deferred Charges
- Needs
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HKW v CRH [2024] EWFC 358 (B)4 December 2024
DDJ Rose. Final hearing in modest asset case. Court making findings on the validity of H’s purported loans/gifts to the parties’ children. Consideration of the Kimber factors concerning point of cohabitation.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Add-Backs
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KD v SD [2024] EWFC 334 (B)18 November 2024
District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing in a needs case concerning a relatively short marriage where the breadwinner and main financial contributor is now also the primary carer for the children.
- Cases
- Contributions
- Needs
- Short Marriage
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GH v H [2024] EWHC 2869 (Fam)12 November 2024
Mr Simon Colton KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. On W’s application, an interim changing order was made final in respect of sums to be paid to a third party/child of the marriage, with interest granted on the unpaid periodical payments. Held: that the fixed costs regime applied to final charging orders made in family proceedings, with consideration as to when that regime could be disapplied.
- Cases
- Fixed Costs
- Child Maintenance
- Periodical Payments
- Interest
- Loans
- Charging Orders
- Costs
- Third Parties
- Debts
- Enforcement
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A v M (No 3) [2024] EWFC 29925 October 2024
Cohen J. Application by H to strike out W’s application to set aside a final order in financial remedies proceedings on the ground of H’s misrepresentation.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Conduct
- Striking Out Applications
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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FC v WC [2024] EWFC 29121 October 2024
HHJ Vincent sitting as a s 9 Deputy High Court Judge. The parties entered a French form of civil partnership when living in France. After returning to live in England in 2022, they were informed that their dissolution was not capable of recognition under s 235(1) CPA 2004 as at the commencement of their dissolution neither party to the dissolution was a French national and was not resident or domiciled in France.
- Cases
- Experts
- Civil Partnerships
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Mainwaring v Bailey [2024] EWHC 2614 (Fam)16 October 2024
Henke J ordered the husband to pay the wife’s costs assessed on a standard basis following his ‘hopeless appeal’. In response to the husband’s plea that he should be treated as a litigant-in-person and he did not understand the Family Procedure Rules, Henke J was emphatic that litigants in person are expected to comply with the procedural rules as much as represented parties.
- Cases
- Costs
- Appeals
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WW v XX [2024] EWFC 330 (B)11 October 2024
HHJ Hess. Final hearing involving valuation and matrimonial nature of business.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Experts
- Companies
- Valuations