Cases
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XZ v YZ [2022] EWFC 49
Mostyn J.H’s application for a reporting restriction order (RRO) against background of Mostyn J’s decision in Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30 that a financial remedy judgment (which is not mainly about child maintenance) may be fully repor…
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
!20/05/2022 18:11
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D v D (Financial Remedy Case) [2020] EWFC B24
DJ John Smart.Rare reported modest asset case. Identification of needs in a marriage that, with prior cohab, had lasted only 10 months. Parties aged 51 and 49. Modest assets, almost all brought into the marriage by H, including the FMH in H’s sole name an…
- Cases
- Needs
- Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
- Conduct
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Duration of the Marriage
!20/05/2022 09:00
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SC v TC [2022] EWFC 67
HHJ Hess.Financial remedies case involving postnuptial agreement, in which H had, in the face of a foreshortened life expectancy caused by Parkinson’s disease, voluntarily relinquished his clear entitlement both to sharing and to a needs-based award…
- Cases
- Impaired Life Expectancy
- Agreements
!20/05/2022 09:00
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 46
Peel J.Costs judgment following outcome of acrimonious and expensive financial remedy proceedings (summary here. W’s award included what H had paid already towards her legal costs (£400k) plus sufficient to discharge her outstanding legal costs (£237,000)…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
!17/05/2022 09:00
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VSN v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and JN [2022] UKUT 138 (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
Upper Tribunal Judge Poynter.This was an application for permission to appeal, persuasive but not binding, and published because it dealt with a novel situation: was a mirror order a “maintenance order” within the meaning of the Child Support…
- Cases
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Child Maintenance
- Child Support
- Mirror Orders
- International Enforcement
!17/05/2022 09:00
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 41
Peel J.Acrimonious and expensive financial remedy proceedings including discussion of premarital cohabitation and engagement, their effect on sharing, and conduct. Parties were both 57, married since Jan 2020, separating in June 2020. No children. W sough…
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Premarital Cohabitation
- Conduct
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Needs
!13/05/2022 09:00
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D (A Child) (Appeal from the Registration of a Maintenance Order) [2022] EWCA Civ 641
Lord Justice Lewison, Lord Justice Moylan and Lord Justice Baker.Case concerning the extent of the right to appeal from the registration in England and Wales of a foreign child maintenance order.M and F were married in the USA but made their home in Engla…
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
- Jurisdiction
- International Enforcement
- Appeals
!11/05/2022 16:32
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G v W [2022] EWHC 101 (Fam)
Sir Jonathan Cohen.An appeal in Schedule 1 proceedings following Re A (Schedule 1, Overspend, Costs Clawback) [2022] EWFC 21. Permission was granted to M to appeal the decision to dismiss her claim for additional payments for a nanny, and additio…
- Cases
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Costs
!11/05/2022 09:43
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Fattal v Fattal [2022] EHWC 950 (Ch)
Deputy Master Hansen.The claimant bought a property in 1972. In 1990 he transferred it to his brother, the defendant, in the mistaken belief that the latter had paid him £400,000. Although the brothers lived there together, the judge found no common inten…
- Cases
- TOLATA Claims
!22/04/2022 13:21
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Lockwood v Greenbaum [2022] EWHC 845 (Fam)
Moor J.W applied for permission in this jurisdiction to bring an application pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (‘1984 Act’) for financial provision following a divorce in New Zealand. Permission was refused at first i…
- Cases
- Appeals
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
!13/04/2022 09:00
