Cases
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D v D [2024] EWFC 7612 March 2024
HHJ Booth, sitting as a judge of the High Court: 25:75 division in favour of H following breakdown of second marriage and H’s substantial assets. Court considered W’s needs should be generously interpreted to overcome lack of SJE evidence as to W’s ill health. Needs would include W’s outstanding costs as summarily assessed by the court.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Interest
- Experts
- Costs
- Duxbury Capitalisation
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SP v QR [2024] EWFC 57 (B)12 March 2024
HHJ Hess. Schedule 1 application with a ‘more modest’ asset base regarding residence in a property subject to a mortgage and ‘top-up’ maintenance for a disabled child.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Child Maintenance
- Needs of a Disabled Child
- Costs
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Child Support
- 'Top-up' Maintenance
- Needs
- Child's Needs
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SP v AL & Ors (by their Litigation Friend FL) [2024] EWFC 72 (B)8 March 2024
HHJ Hess. Final Hearing of W’s application for financial remedy, with H’s children from a previous marriage intervening via their mother as their litigation friend. Significant comments re pension sharing and apportionment.
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Loans
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Debts
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Re X (Financial Remedy: Non-Court Dispute Resolution) [2024] EWHC 538 (Fam)8 March 2024
Knowles J; impact of Churchill on family proceedings. Incoming changes to FPR from 29 April 2024 will enable court to adjourn proceedings for ADR with potential costs consequences for non-engagement.
- Cases
- Mediation
- Family Procedure Rules
- NCDR
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Tousi v Gaydukova [2024] EWCA Civ 2036 March 2024
McFarlane P, Moylan and Holroyde LJJ. Are the parties to a void marriage able to apply for a transfer of tenancy as cohabitants, and does the lex loci celebrationis determine the ramifications of invalidity?
- Cases
- Non-Qualifying Ceremony
- Validity of marriage
- Jurisdiction
- Locus Lex Celebrationis
- Void Marriage
- Transfer of Tenancy
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AB v BA [2024] EWHC 1179 (Fam)5 March 2024
Cusworth J. Appeals allowed against instalment quantum for payment of costs and the requirement for permission to enforce further costs orders.
- Cases
- Costs
- Enforcement
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AW v RH (Preliminary Issue: Third Party Rights), Re [2024] EWFC 545 March 2024
HHJ Willans. Dispute with third parties regarding the ownership of two properties and whether they should be treated as matrimonial property.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- TLATA Applications
- Trusts of Land
- Third Party Rights
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Re Z (No 5) (Enforcement) [2024] EWFC 444 March 2024
Cobb J. Enforcement of Schedule 1 Order: freezing order, capitalisation of periodical payments for the benefit of the child, and Hadkinson order made against F who resides in the USA.
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Hadkinson Orders
- Freezing Injunctions
- Costs
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- International Enforcement
- Enforcement
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Williams v Williams [2023] EWHC 2479 (Fam)28 February 2024
Moor J: H held in contempt for failing to comply with orders; sentenced to 56 days’ imprisonment, suspended for 28 days, to allow filing of sworn Form E.
- Cases
- Freezing Injunctions
- Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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C v D (No 2) (2007 Hague Convention) [2024] EWFC 3627 February 2024
MacDonald J underlines the limited circumstances in which the registration of a maintenance order pursuant to the Hague Convention 2007 may be appealed successfully.
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Child Maintenance
- International Enforcement
- Child Support
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