Cases
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A (former wife) v A (former husband) [2023] EWFC 412 January 2023
Recorder Laura Moys. Helpful approach to case management with exceptionally difficult LiP.W was 57, H 59. They separated after 30 years of marriage, producing one child (now aged 30). The assets were worth £1.3m. W was a manager at her local county counci…
- Cases
- Managing Difficult Hearings
- Conduct
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DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 610 January 2023
HHJ Madeleine Reardon. Finding of economic abuse and consideration of whether it met the level of s 25 conduct.Parties aged 49 (W) and 59 (H), married 1994, separated 2018, children adults. Marriage void for W’s bigamy, but with no findings made and…
- Cases
- Needs
- Costs
- Add-Backs
- Economic Abuse
- Conduct
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(1) Dixon (2) Dixon v The Crown Estate Commissioners [2022] EWHC 325622 December 2022
Judge Hodge KC. The claimants sought vesting orders in respect of two properties, following the striking off and dissolution of the company (in which the claimants had previously been shareholders) which was the registered proprietor. The Crown disclaimed…
- Cases
- Proprietary Estoppel
- Companies
- Trusts
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Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 164814 December 2022
Lewison, Andrews and Nugee LJJ. Second appeal on whether detriment remained a requirement of a constructive trust, given not mentioned in either Stack or Kernott.Unmarried couple, house in joint names. On separation, parties agreed that Ms Hathaway would…
- Cases
- s 53 LPA 1925
- Detrimental Reliance
- TOLATA Claims
- Signature
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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
- Variation Applications
- Child Maintenance
- Costs
- Cohabitation of Recipient of Spousal Maintenance
- Conduct
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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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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
- Delay
- Costs
- Agreements
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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
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Child Maintenance
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Agreements
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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
- Costs
- Freezing Injunctions
