Cases
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A Wife v A Husband [2022] EWFC 1546 December 2022
HHJ Vincent. Consent order provided for W to receive lump sum in instalments for purpose of housing herself and the children, and spousal and child periodical payments. W relocated and sought accelerated receipt. Further consent order provided for this, b…
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
- Conduct
- Costs
- Variation Applications
- Cohabitation of Recipient of Spousal Maintenance
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TM v KM [2022] EWFC 1552 December 2022
HHJ Hess. Application of compensation principle. W was 50 and had attended what many consider to be the finest business school in the world before a highly successful career in investment finance. In 2006 and 2007, before she ceased work, W earned £505,00…
- Cases
- Compensation Principle
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Rose v Rose & Ors [2022] EWFC 19225 November 2022
His Honour Judge Booth (sitting as a Judge of the High Court pursuant to s 9 SCA 1981).How should the court ‘deal with a respondent husband who has been dishonest throughout, has failed to comply with court orders, has failed to provide relevant fin…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Variation of Settlements
- Trusts
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WD v MH [2022] EWFC 16218 November 2022
Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. H was 66 and W 61. Short marriage.Within judicial separation proceedings (although neither party could confirm why such were preferred to divorce), the parties agreed (the 2008 Agreement), inter alia, the following:H to pay W a lu…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Delay
- Costs
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P v P (Treatment of costs in sharing cases) [2022] EWFC 15814 November 2022
DDJ David Hodson. The court published this discrete judgment to address several issues of legal costs in a wholly sharing claim. This was a case which ‘should never have got to Form A, let alone a final hearing’; W had incurred £130,000 in legal costs whe…
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Add-Backs
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Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 13514 November 2022
Mostyn J. Ultra high net worth financial remedies where there there was a 2014 postnuptial agreement (a 2012 prenup modified after marriage). H was a billionaire real estate developer and parties ‘lived a billionaire lifestyle’.PNA created separate proper…
- Cases
- Secured Provision
- Agreements
- Child Maintenance
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Duxbury Capitalisation
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J v H [2022] EWFC 1339 November 2022
Peel J. H’s application for a freezing injunction. Reference to Mostyn J’s guidance from UL v BK and the importance of compliance with the pre-requisites set out in that case.H’s initial application was essentially without notice as short, informal notice…
- Cases
- Freezing Injunctions
- Costs
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Parveen v Hussain and the Queen’s Proctor [2022] EWCA Civ 14344 November 2022
Moylan, Asplin and Stuart-Smith LJJ. W was domiciled in Pakistan when her former husband pronounced talaq while in England. The talaq decree issued by a British mosque was certified by the Pakistani authorities as valid in Pakistan. W then married H in Pa…
- Cases
- Nullity
- divorce
- Validity of marriage
- Conflict of Law
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W v H (Contested Divorce) [2022] EWFC 1502 November 2022
HHJ Greensmith. H defended W’s petition for divorce. The parties were 45. H was a doctor and W a social worker. They married in Australia in 2014 and separated in 2017. They have three children.This was not H’s first round of contested divorce/financial r…
- Cases
- Intermediaries
- Defended Divorce
- Costs
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Stacey v McNicholas [2022] EWHC 278 (Fam)2 November 2022
Moor J. Under Schedule 1, F had been ordered to pay a lump sum of £350,000 to the M to act as a housing fund, in addition to a sum of £50,000 on standard Schedule 1 terms. F was granted permission to appeal solely in relation to the lump sum of £350k.M ap…
- Cases
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications