
Cases
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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
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Cummings v Fawn [2023] EWHC 830 (Fam)14 April 2023
Mostyn J. Judgment on W’s appeal. W sought to argue that an agreement reached (and upheld by the court) should be negated or vitiated by undue influence or other oppressive conduct by the H, in addition to a number of grounds of appeal, including H&…
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Costs
- Appeals
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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DR v UG [2023] EWFC 685 April 2023
Moor J. The parties were Danish. H was aged 57 and W aged 49. Children aged 18, 16, and 16. Married 2004, marriage broke down in 2019.H was CEO of a drugs manufacturer but staged a management buy-out which gave him 70% shares. His purchase was funded…
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Special Contribution
- Delay
- Valuations
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Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2023] EWFC 504 April 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen. The latest and, one hopes, final episode in a legal saga involving financial remedy, jurisdiction and children litigation spaning 60 hearings between Russia and England, in which H alone had sought counsel and legal advice from 7 firms…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Companies
- Costs
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Professional Ethics
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Joanne Lewis v Cunningtons Solicitors [2023] EWHC 822 (KB)31 March 2023
HHJ Coe KC. Successful negligence claim in relation to pensions advice on divorce.The Claimant, after receiving some advice from the Defendants, but in the absence of full disclosure, entered into direct discussions with her husband and then instructed th…
- Cases
- Professional Negligence
- Pensions on Divorce