Cases
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CG v SG [2023] EWHC 942 (Fam)10 March 2023
HHJ Hess. A final hearing in financial remedy proceedings heard over six days.Both parties were in their sixties and had a long marriage of 30 years. The children were all adult and independent. During the marriage, the W, a qualified nurse, had taken on…
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Experts
- Companies
- Costs
- Valuations
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CC v LC [2023] EWFC 5210 March 2023
HHJ Wildblood KC. Final hearing in a needs case in which the assets available were limited to a three bedroom property, which housed the W and the three minor children of the marriage. In addition, each party held pensions of a similar value.The H had ref…
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Conduct
- Costs
- Needs
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MN v AN [2023] EWHC 613 (Fam)10 March 2023
Moor J. H’s application that W show cause why she should not be held to the terms of a 2005 (pre-Radmacher) prenuptial agreement. H’s premarital assets £32.5 million and W’s £62,000. Negotiations through leading solicitors resu…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Conduct
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AP v BP & Ors (financial remedies – appeal – disclosure – privilege) [2023] EWFC 1699 March 2023
On the husband's discovery of the wife's agreement with the intervenors he sought disclosure of the first agreement.
- Cases
- Privilege
- Disclosure
- Setting Aside Transactions
- Companies
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X v Y, Re Z (No. 4 Schedule 1 award) [2023] EWFC 257 March 2023
Mr Justice Cobb. M’s application under Schedule 1 for financial provision from F, who lives in the USA, for Zoe who is 2 years 4 months old and suffers from Williams Syndrome. Zoe also has a congenital heart defect and displays global developmental…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Enforcement
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Teasdale v Carter and Teasdale [2023] EWHC 490 (Fam)7 March 2023
Moor J. Appeal in farming estoppel case with astronomical costs far exceeding the value of the property in question.The first respondent, Ms Carter, was the elder daughter of the appellant mother and second respondent father. During the parents’ fin…
- Cases
- TLATA Applications
- Costs
- Joinder of Third Parties
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KM v CV [2022] EWFC 1741 March 2023
HHJ Robinson. Case concerning pensions where neither party had any capital. FMH had been sold with £10,000 left after payment of mortgage and costs.Case concerned treatment of W’s two police pensions. Pension expert, Mr Nobbs, concluded equalis…
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Benefits
- Needs
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Tousi v Gayukova [2023] EWHC 404 (Fam)27 February 2023
Mostyn J. Does the court have jurisdiction to transfer a (housing association) tenancy between the parties to an invalid marriage? Do the consequences of invalidity fall to be determined under the law of the country of marriage, or only whether the marria…
- Cases
- Non-Qualifying Ceremony
- Validity of marriage
- Jurisdiction
- Locus Lex Celebrationis
- Void Marriage
- Transfer of Tenancy
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NO v PQ [2023] EWFC 3623 February 2023
Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. Agreement between the parties upheld notwithstanding H’s predicament of real need – ‘an unusual outcome but justified as the only fair one on the facts’; [8]. W aged 60 and H aged 58, long marriage,…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Needs
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EL v ML [2023] EWFC 4315 February 2023
HHJ Hess. Final hearing in relation to W’s application for permission to appeal a consent order from March 2021 which varied a final financial remedy order from 2019.Initial proceedings concluded in 2019, W made an application for enforcement of per…
- Cases
- Waiver of Privilege
- Appeals
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)