
Cases
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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
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CMX v EJX (French Marriage Contract) [2020] EWFC 1362 November 2022
Moor J. The Husband (‘H’) was a 56 year old French national and Chairman of Industrial Investment Banking at bank. The Wife (‘W’) was French/Lebanese/British, 54 years old and had a successful career in the bottled water industry. They lived in England.Mr…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Pensions on Divorce
- Needs
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PP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and SP [2022] UKUT 286 (AAC)1 November 2022
Upper Tribunal Judge Wikeley. Decision on F’s appeal.A reconsideration of a re-assessment of F’s child maintenance liability resulted in FTT ruling (in the absence of both parties): (1) that F’s unearned income was £34,191; (2) that it was just and equita…
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
- Appeals
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Clarke v Clarke [2022] EWHC 2698 (Fam)28 October 2022
Mostyn J. Appeal by W against the judgment and order of HHJ Farqhuar on three grounds. One, whether the order should provide for W to receive a minimum sum from the net proceeds of sale of the FMH. This was not strongly advanced by W and became irrelevant…
- Cases
- Companies
- Appeals
- Valuations
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BK v (1) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2) LB [2022] UKUT 282 (AAC)27 October 2022
Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Rowland. Decision on F’s application to appeal the decision of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT). F appealed a child maintenance assessment on the basis that his gross income was lower than the figure used in the assessment.F sough…
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
- Appeals