Cases
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RM v WP [2024] EWFC 191 (B)28 June 2024
HHJ Hess. Modest asset case exploring whether a departure from equality is appropriate where there were four consecutive family homes during the marriage, all of which were acquired by one party prior to the marriage.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Matrimonialisation
- Modest Asset Cases
- Needs
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RM v WP [2024] EWFC 191 (B)28 June 2024
HHJ Hess considers when a property becomes the family home and therefore matrimonialised, and whether, once matrimonialised, it can become un-matrimonialised, and makes use of the Galbraith Tables while doing some heavy lifting to get the case to a practical, workable conclusion without further delay.
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Matrimonialisation
- Galbraith Tables
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Gudmundsson v Lin [2024] EWHC 1576 (Fam)21 June 2024
Peel J does his best to put into practice the intention of the original financial remedies order, despite H depriving W of 50% of the FMH by not informing the court that there was a bankruptcy order.
- Cases
- Bankruptcy
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TI v LI [2024] EWFC 163 (B)21 June 2024
Recorder Allen KC. Recognition of Pakistani divorce.
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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MR v EF [2024] EWFC 144 (B)20 June 2024
Recorder Rhys Taylor in financial remedy proceedings makes findings in favour of the wife as to the date of separation of the parties.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Duration of the Marriage
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P v Q, R and S [2024] EWFC 164 (B)19 June 2024
District Judge Veal. Final hearing concerning W’s claim in financial remedy proceedings for a beneficial interest in two properties which had been bought and renovated by H and the intervenors, H’s parents. District Judge Veal found that W had been dishonest in pursuing her claims and had presented her case in a ‘nebulous way’ which must have felt ‘like a real slap in the face’ for the intervenors.
- Cases
- Transparency
- TOLATA Claims
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Trusts
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RN v TT [2024] EWFC 264 (B)14 June 2024
HHJ Hess. W (51) and H (49) cohabited in a flat in W’s sole name from late 2003 and married in 2004. W was a GP. H was a former painter and decorator.
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Delay
- Needs
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EC v JC [2024] EWFC 175 (B)13 June 2024
DJ Hatvany. Final financial remedies hearing in a where the assets were modest. The parties were married for 11 years and had twin boys aged 9. An unfortunate feature of this case was that both parties had incurred large costs, which would make clearing their debt on both sides and enabling both parties to rehouse in a three-to-four-bedroom properties close to the boy’s school problematic.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Litigation Funding
- Costs
- Debts
- Modest Asset Cases
- Needs
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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