
Cases
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DH v RH [2023] EWFC 1115 July 2023
MacDonald J. Determination of the W’s application for a legal services payment order (LSPO) and maintenance pending suit (MPS).The parties were both in their 50s and had married in 1995. They have two daughters, born in 2005 and 2007. The H had prod…
- Cases
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Li v Simons [2023] EWHC 1626 (Fam)30 June 2023
Moor J. Judgment on an appeal against an order made in a variation of maintenance application.The parties reached an agreement settling the financial claims arising out of their marriage in April 2020, and a consent order was made in those terms in July 2…
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Costs
- Variation Applications
- Appeals
- Litigation Misconduct
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Unger and another (in substitution for Hasan) (Appellants) v Ul-Hasan (deceased) and another (Respondents) [2023] UKSC 2228 June 2023
The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the appeal brought by the wife, Nafisa Hasan, against the magisterial and potentially seminal judgment of Mostyn J in Hasan v Ul-Hasan (Deceased) & Anor [2021] EWHC 1791 (Fam).
- Cases
- Barder Applications
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Maintenance as a Cause of Action
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Gohil v Gohil and CPS [2023] EWHC 1567 (Fam)27 June 2023
Mostyn J. The case concerned the inexplicable differences that accompany a draft judgment handed down respectively in the King’s Bench Division, the Family Division, and the Crown Court. H was served by the Crown Court with a document titled the ‘Findings Made Following Confiscation Proceedings’.
- Cases
- Contempt of Court
- Embargoed Judgments
- Criminal Confiscation and Restraint Orders
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RA v KS [2023] EWFC 10223 June 2023
Recorder Allen KC. Determination of W’s application for an interim order for sale. At an earlier directions hearing following a private FDR, the judge raised whether there was jurisdiction to order vacant possession of the property under s 33 of the…
- Cases
- Sale of Property
- Interim Order For Sale
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SS v IS [2023] EWHC 1544 (Fam)14 June 2023
Roberts J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings with issues around spousal maintenance, offshore trusts and non-matrimonial assets.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Special Contribution
- Trusts
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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