
Cases
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A v B [2022] EWFC 14925 May 2022
HHJ Reardon. W’s application under s 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 for declaration that no valid marriage subsisted between the parties because at the time of the purported wedding, conducted by a priest of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Sa…
- Cases
- Nullity
- Validity of marriage
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AZ v BZ (Financial Remedies Appeal) [2020] EWFC B8622 May 2022
HHJ Vincent. Appeal by H of a financial remedy order where on a clean break basis the assets were divided 99/1 in favour of W.
- Cases
- Personal Injury Awards
- Appeals
- Needs
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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SC v TC [2022] EWFC 6720 May 2022
HHJ Hess.Financial remedies case involving postnuptial agreement, in which H had, in the face of a foreshortened life expectancy caused by Parkinson’s disease, voluntarily relinquished his clear entitlement both to sharing and to a needs-based award…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Impaired Life Expectancy
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XZ v YZ [2022] EWFC 4920 May 2022
Mostyn J.H’s application for a reporting restriction order (RRO) against background of Mostyn J’s decision in Xanthopoulos v Rakshina ⁠[2022] EWFC 30 that a financial remedy judgment (which is not mainly about child maintenance) may be fully repor…
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
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D v D (Financial Remedy Case) [2020] EWFC B2420 May 2022
DJ John Smart.Rare reported modest asset case. Identification of needs in a marriage that, with prior cohab, had lasted only 10 months. Parties aged 51 and 49. Modest assets, almost all brought into the marriage by H, including the FMH in H’s sole name an…
- Cases
- Duration of the Marriage
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Conduct
- Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
- Needs
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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