
Cases
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SM v BA (No 2: Maintenance Pending Suit) [2025] EWFC 2819 February 2025
Nicholas Allen KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application to increase maintenance pending suit (MPS) in ‘super-rich’ financial remedies case.
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Collardeau v Fuchs & Anor [2025] EWFC 3619 February 2025
Poole J. Finding of a sham lease within enforcement proceedings of a final financial remedy order.
- Cases
- Setting Aside Transactions
- Enforcement
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DF v YB [2025] EWFC 46 (B)14 February 2025
Recorder Nicholas Allen KC. Judgment following four-day final hearing, in which the parties agreed that it was a sharing case and that the net capital assets should be divided equally. The dispute centred around issues of computation, including tax issues and add-back vs Wells sharing.
- Cases
- Loans
- Tax
- Debts
- Add-Backs
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AB v CD & Ors [2025] EWFC 95813 February 2025
HHJ Richard Williams. Judgment following a trial of a preliminary issue in financial remedy proceedings to determine (a) if a transfer of shares was made with the intention to defeat a claim for financial relief and should therefore be set aside and (b) if a loan had been made and, if so, if it had since been waived.
- Cases
- Loans
- Valuations
- Trusts
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MacQueen v MacQueen [2024] EWFC 400 (B)9 February 2025
District Judge Ashby. Final hearing concerning an application for a final financial remedy order in proceedings concerning serious findings of non-disclosure.
- Cases
- Non-Disclosure
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
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QW v GH [2025] EWFC 19 (B)31 January 2025
DJ Worthley. Final hearing in a financial relief claim brought by W 8 years after the parties separated.
- Cases
- Post-Separation Accrual
- Jurisdiction
- Delay
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T v T and Others (Disregard for Procedural Rules, Adjournment) [2025] EWFC 14 (B)29 January 2025
Recorder Chandler KC was forced to adjourn a three-day hearing in the face of W’s legal aid solicitors failing to comply with the Family Court’s procedures. The judge made it clear that where a legally represented applicant failed to comply with the Family Procedure Rules, practice directions and the Statement of Efficient Conduct relevant to preparing a case for a hearing, it was likely there would be costs consequences.
- Cases
- Costs
- Bundles
- Efficient Conduct
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PM v RM [2025] EWFC 1120 January 2025
Mr Justin Warshaw KC sitting as a Deputy High Court judge. Application for maintenance pending suit, a legal services payment order and an injunction in a high value financial remedy case.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Monisha Mahtani v Vivek Hariram Mahtani [2025] EWFC 3516 January 2025
James Ewins KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. A difficult case where the respondent husband failed to attend any hearing or make any disclosure. All the court could do was draw inferences to prevent a ‘cheat’s charter’ in the face of W’s quasi-sharing claim. W asserted H had significant assets but had no fixed or agreed values. The final hearing proceeded in H’s absence, with no evidence from H.
- Cases
- Conduct
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HA v EN [2025] EWHC 48 (Fam)15 January 2025
Deputy High Court Judge Richard Todd KC. Application by W for maintenance pending suit (MPS) and a legal services payment order (LSPO) in protracted financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders