Cases
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Hughes v Pritchard and Others [2023] EWHC 1382 (Ch)12 June 2023
HHJ Keyser KC. Propriety estoppel case. Cattle farmer Evan Hughes died leaving three children, the claimant Gareth Hughes, the defendant Carys Richards, and another child, Elfed, whose widow Gwen Hughes was the second defendant. The remaining defendants w…
- Cases
- Unconscionability
- Detrimental Reliance
- Proprietary Estoppel
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S v S [2023] EWFC 2697 June 2023
HHJ Booth prefers Moylan LJ’s approach to matrimonial/non-matrimonial property, in which a scientific approach only takes one so far and the court must apply its discretion, over Mostyn J’s more scientific and formulaic approach.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Duration of the Marriage
- Costs
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Wife v Husband [2023] EWFC 273 (B)6 June 2023
DJ Masters. Small money case heard by a district judge. Final hearing where H dissipated inheritance received during the marriage.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Needs
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CG v DL [2023] EWFC 8225 May 2023
Cohen J. This was the final hearing in the W’s application for financial remedies, following a long relationship of 27/28 years, during which the parties had two children aged 13 and 19.Both parties were initially journalists. The W became a full-ti…
- Cases
- Post Separation Assets
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AB v CD [2023] EWFC 10318 May 2023
HHJ Shelton. Hearing on 10 February 2023. Cross-applications to vary global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance order.
- Cases
- Global Maintenance Orders
- Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Needs
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EK v DK & Ors [2023] EWHC 1829 (Fam)11 May 2023
Mr Justice Francis. Application by W to set aside consent order dated March 2018 on basis of H’s non-disclosure.This was a long marriage with three teenage/young adult children at the time of separation. The Trustees of two trusts, the LK (No 2 Sett…
- Cases
- Variation of Settlements
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Consent Orders
- Liquidity
- Valuations
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
- Trusts
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RL v NL [2023] EWFC 759 May 2023
HHJ Madeleine Reardon KC. Striking out of Husband’s application to set aside a financial remedy order made in 1995. The FR order provided that H was to transfer his interest in FMH to W and thereafter there was to be a clean break, but the transfer…
- Cases
- Delay
- Striking Out Applications
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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WK v GC [2023] EWFC 15128 April 2023
HHJ Hess. Approach to quantifying capitalisation of spousal maintenance some years after original order.
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Pensions on Divorce
- Variation Applications
- Duxbury Capitalisation
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Backstrom v Wennberg [2023] EWFC 7928 April 2023
Mr L. Samuels KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge.The court heard cross applications for financial remedies orders. W issued a notice that H show cause why he should not be held to their pre- and post-marital agreements.H failed to attend the final h…
- Cases
- Non-Disclosure
- Disclosure
- Agreements
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James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam)19 April 2023
Mostyn J. An appeal concerning the correct approach to the calculation of child maintenance liability in which Mostyn J adds to the ever-expanding repository of family law acronyms.
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Child Support