Cases
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HJB v WPB [2024] EWFC 18710 July 2024
HHJ Vincent. Preliminary hearing to determine whether parties should be held to a separation agreement. Agreement found to be ‘presumptively dispositive’. An agreement will not be unpicked merely because a business has thereafter performed well.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Agreements
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IN v CH [2024] EWFC 2338 July 2024
Mr Stephen Trowell KC. The husband and wife made competing applications for an order for sale in respect of the matrimonial home and a yacht. The court found that the wife did not have a beneficial interest in the matrimonial home and ordered the property to be sold. The wife’s application to sell the yacht was unsuccessful as it belonged to a company, AB, who had not been joined to the proceedings.
- Cases
- Sale of Property
- Interim Relief
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Trusts
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HW v WB (Financial Remedies; Treatment of Post-nuptial Agreement) [2024] EWFC 328 (B)5 July 2024
DJ Phillips. Final hearing where the issues concerned whether a post-nuptial agreement was binding on the parties and fair. The parties were married for 9 years and had one child, 10, and, W’s older child, 19, who was treated as a child of the family, having been 6 years when the parties met. Four days after the marriage, the parties signed a PNA.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Agreements
- Child Maintenance
- Needs
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KV v KV [2024] EWFC 1653 July 2024
Peel J. Application by W for (i) Maintenance Pending Suit pursuant to s 22 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and (ii) a Legal Services Payment Order pursuant to s 22ZA of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Interim Relief
- Jurisdiction
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Simon v (1) Simon (2) Integro Funding Limited (‘Level’) [2024] EWFC 1602 July 2024
Peel J. The last instalment in the *Simon v Simon & Level* family court litigation. Level’s civil claim is yet to be determined. Peel J found that the family court cannot make a distributive order upon application of an intervenor to require one party to pay the other party such sum as the third-party intervenor says it is entitled to.
- Cases
- Litigation Funding
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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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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