Cases
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ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 12819 May 2022
Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'. In 2010, the parties m…
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Tax
- Needs
- Trusts
- Add-Backs
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VSN v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and JN [2022] UKUT 138 (Administrative Appeals Chamber)17 May 2022
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
- Child Maintenance
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- International Enforcement
- Child Support
- Mirror Orders
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 4617 May 2022
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
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 4113 May 2022
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
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Conduct
- Needs
- Premarital Cohabitation
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WC v HC [2022] EWFC 4011 May 2022
Peel J: costs awarded in needs case reducing substantive award.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
- Needs
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G v W [2022] EWHC 1101 (Fam)11 May 2022
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
- Costs
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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D (A Child) (Appeal from the Registration of a Maintenance Order) [2022] EWCA Civ 64111 May 2022
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
- Jurisdiction
- Child Maintenance
- Appeals
- International Enforcement
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Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 4526 April 2022
Mostyn J. W’s application for enforcement of interim maintenance order (maintenance decision summarised here. H had negligently failed to pay wages of staff at the parties’ house in Antibes, such payments being part of the interim order. While court did n…
- Cases
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Enforcement
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Fattal v Fattal [2022] EHWC 950 (Ch)22 April 2022
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
- TLATA Applications
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Lockwood v Greenbaum [2022] EWHC 845 (Fam)13 April 2022
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
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Appeals