Cases
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KFK v DQD [2024] EWFC 78 (B)3 April 2024
Recorder Rhys Taylor. Modest asset needs case. Issues in the case: add-back, adverse inference, beneficial interests, dishonesty, family loans and resources, nature of business assets (income vs capital resource), non-disclosure, presumption of advancement, treatment of debts, and witness credibility.
- Cases
- Chattels
- Costs
- Disclosure
- Family Procedure Rules
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TK v LK [2024] EWFC 712 April 2024
Enormously helpful review of Sch 1 authorities re (i) the jurisdiction to make a Schedule 1 award after a clean break in divorce proceedings, (ii) the relevance of parental conduct in Schedule 1 proceedings, (iii) dependence and the reversion of capital and (iv) costs.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Costs
- Child Maintenance
- Case Management
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Collardeau v Fuchs & Anor [2024] EWHC 642 (Fam)21 March 2024
Knowles J. Costs in relation to (a) dismissal of W’s contempt application against H and the owner of a company that provided management services to H and W and (b) withdrawal by H of his application to debar W’s solicitor from acting for her.
- Cases
- Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
- Costs
- Conduct
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ES v SS [No.2] [2024] EWFC 5918 March 2024
Sir Jonathan Cohen: determination as to the distribution of trust assets following a final hearing.
- Cases
- Costs
- Trusts
- Tax
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Julie Annette Merryman v Alex Raymond Merryman & Ors [2024] EWFC 58 (B)14 March 2024
HHJ Baddeley. Four stepchildren intervene successfully in financial remedies case in respect of four farming properties.
- Cases
- Proprietary Estoppel
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D v D [2024] EWFC 7612 March 2024
HHJ Booth, sitting as a judge of the High Court: 25:75 division in favour of H following breakdown of second marriage and H’s substantial assets. Court considered W’s needs should be generously interpreted to overcome lack of SJE evidence as to W’s ill health. Needs would include W’s outstanding costs as summarily assessed by the court.
- Cases
- Interest
- Housing Need
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Costs
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Experts
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SP v QR [2024] EWFC 57 (B)12 March 2024
HHJ Hess. Schedule 1 application with a ‘more modest’ asset base regarding residence in a property subject to a mortgage and ‘top-up’ maintenance for a disabled child.
- Cases
- 'Top-up' Maintenance
- Child Support
- Needs
- Child's Needs
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Needs of a Disabled Child
- Housing Need
- Child Maintenance
- Costs
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Re X (Financial Remedy: Non-Court Dispute Resolution) [2024] EWHC 538 (Fam)8 March 2024
Knowles J; impact of Churchill on family proceedings. Incoming changes to FPR from 29 April 2024 will enable court to adjourn proceedings for ADR with potential costs consequences for non-engagement.
- Cases
- Mediation
- Family Procedure Rules
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- NCDR
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Tousi v Gaydukova [2024] EWCA Civ 2036 March 2024
McFarlane P, Moylan and Holroyde LJJ. Are the parties to a void marriage able to apply for a transfer of tenancy as cohabitants, and does the lex loci celebrationis determine the ramifications of invalidity?
- Cases
- Void Marriage
- Non-Qualifying Ceremony
- Validity of marriage
- Jurisdiction
- Transfer of Tenancy
- Locus Lex Celebrationis
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AW v RH (Preliminary Issue: Third Party Rights), Re [2024] EWFC 545 March 2024
HHJ Willans. Dispute with third parties regarding the ownership of two properties and whether they should be treated as matrimonial property.
- Cases
- Trusts of Land
- Third Party Rights
- TOLATA Claims
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property