Cases
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WXT v HMT (leave to claim financial relief following overseas divorce) [2024] EWFC 136 (B)7 June 2024
HHJ Vincent. The case concerned an application by W for leave to make a claim for financial relief following an overseas divorce under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.
- Cases
- Part III
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Leave Application
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AH v BH [2024] EWFC 1257 June 2024
Peel J final hearing judgment in high-net-worth FR case in which the parties had entered into a pre-nuptial agreement which purported to ‘severely limit W’s financial remedy claims in her own right and the financial needs of W and the children’.
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Agreements
- Needs
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DH v RH (No 4) (Costs) [2024] EWFC 11424 May 2024
MacDonald J. Costs judgment following hearing in contentious case involving costs amounting to 23% of the assets.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
- Add-Backs
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NA v LA [2024] EWFC 11324 May 2024
Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. A ‘paradigm’ case for the court to exercise its new powers under FPR 3.4 to stay proceedings for the parties to engage in NCDR.
- Cases
- Stay of Proceedings
- NCDR
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NW v BH [2024] EWFC 118 (B)23 May 2024
Recorder Rhys Taylor. Evidentially complex final hearing in needs-based case involving verbal Daniels v Walker application, abandoning of SJE report, disclosure inadequacies, and an intervenor being removed.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Daniels v Walker Application
- Joinder of Third Parties
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V v W [2024] EWFC 11123 May 2024
Poole J. The issues for determination were whether this court had jurisdiction to hear dissolution proceedings in relation to a French pacte civil de solidarité, and, if so, is the forum conveniens for dissolution proceedings nevertheless in France?
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
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JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam)23 May 2024
Cobb J. The case concerned four applications by the mother for an LSPO to cover the costs of her legal representation in ongoing proceedings under Schedule 1 (where she sought financial provision for the six-year old child) and s 8 CA 1989.
- Cases
- Freezing Injunctions
- Land Registration Act 2002
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 56723 May 2024
Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Sharing
- Gifts
- Matrimonialisation
- Tax
- Autonomy
- Trusts
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Re RA (Appeal: Validity of a Marriage: Finding of Fact) [2024] EWHC 1144 (Fam)15 May 2024
Henke J. Successful appeal of a fact-finding, despite such an appeal being ‘notoriously difficult’.
- Cases
- Validity of marriage
- Appeals
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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C v S [2024] EWFC 10915 May 2024
Peel J. H’s D11 application in relation to the implementation of a final order in matrimonial finance proceedings.
- Cases
- Personal Injury Awards
- Mortgages
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Costs