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

• Albert Gibbon

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

• Olivia Currie

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

• Rebekah Batt

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

• Vivien Croly

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)

• Olivia Currie

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

• Stephanie Coker

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

• Jasmine Knapman

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

• William Foulkes

GH v GH [2024] EWHC 2547 (Fam)

Peel J. In a narrow but important judgment, Peel J reminds all of the importance of an FDR, allowing an appeal against a decision of the first instance judge to proceed directly to a final hearing.

• Cases

• FDRs
• Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
• Appeals
• Efficient Conduct

• Liam Kelly

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ED v OF [2024] EWFC 2979 September 2024

Cusworth J. Financial remedy proceedings relating to the valuation and division of a high-value music catalogue as a key matrimonial asset.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Companies
• Tax
• Valuations

• Ella Fogg