
Cases
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A v H [2024] EWFC 254 (B)2 August 2024
HHJ Willans. Final hearing concerning the enforcement of a school fees order.
- Cases
- School Fees
- Enforcement
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A v M (No 2) [2024] EWFC 2141 August 2024
Sir Jonathan Cohen. Dispute over enforcement of a FR order giving W a share of the proceeds the husband received from a private equity fund where part of the investments in that fund were carried into a continuation fund.
- Cases
- Construction Of A Final Order
- Continuation Funds
- Enforcement
- Private Equity Funds
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Loh v Loh-Gronager [2024] EWFC 241 (Fam)29 July 2024
Cusworth J. A preliminary issue hearing where the substantive question was how the chattels fell to be characterised for the purposes of the prenuptial agreement, and consequently the respective entitlements of the parties in those items following their divorce.
- Cases
- Chattels
- Agreements
- Contributions
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BI v EN [2024] EWFC 200 (Fam)29 July 2024
Decision of Cusworth J concluding financial remedy proceedings between W and H. The principal issue concerned the extent to which the outcome of W’s application for financial remedies should be impacted by the ‘Contrat de Mariage’ (the elected séparation de biens property regime).
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Sharing Principle
- Agreements
- Compensation Principle
- Needs
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Goodman v Walker [2024] EWFC 212 (B)23 July 2024
HHJ Hess. High-profile Schedule 1 Final Hearing between Lauryn Goodman and Kyle Walker in which the judge made transparency orders in accordance with the guidance set out in the Transparency Reporting Pilot for Financial Remedy Proceedings.
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
- Anonymity and Transparency
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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LI v FT (Maintenance Pending Suit) [2024] EWFC 342 (B)19 July 2024
DDJ Harrop. Decision on costs after an MPS application with no clear winner. The court was dismayed by what had been incurred in legal fees contesting the MPS application. W incurred £27,000 in a little over a month and H nearly £12,000. The sums could have paid for the disputed holiday nearly twice over or, as the husband points out, met a term’s school fees. The MPS costs were the context of W having already incurred £100,000 in legal fees up to the FDA, and H’s £26,000.
- Cases
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Costs
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VS v OP (Litigation Misconduct, Quasi-Inquisitorial Approach and Inferences) [2024] EWFC 190 (B)18 July 2024
Recorder Chandler KC’s final order was 67% to H and 33% to W, the non-compliant party, and an SPP order in W’s favour even though she did not attend, had not made full disclosure and adverse inferences had been made.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Costs
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NM v PM [2024] EWFC 199 (B)18 July 2024
DDJ Nahal-Macdonald. Preliminary issues hearing in relation to interpretation of a clause in a prenuptial agreement.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Agreements
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N v J [2024] EWFC 18415 July 2024
Peel J’s view is that it is unlikely that domestic abuse would have a material impact on the vast majority of financial remedy cases, such that it would need to be litigated. Peel J uses the case of N v J to address the interplay between domestic abuse and conduct in the context of financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Civil Partnerships
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Rotenberg v Rotenberg & Ors [2024] EWFC 18515 July 2024
Peel J accepts the existence of the Thwaite jurisdiction. Where the landscape on the ground was very different from that which was envisaged at the time of the order an executory order could be reframed under the Thwaite jurisdiction. The jurisdiction should be used sparingly.
- Cases
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'