Cases
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 41
Peel J.Acrimonious and expensive financial remedy proceedings including discussion of premarital cohabitation and engagement, their effect on sharing, and conduct. Parties were both 57, married since Jan 2020, separating in June 2020. No children. W sough…
- Cases
- Needs
- Sharing Principle
- Premarital Cohabitation
- Conduct
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
!13/05/2022 09:00
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D (A Child) (Appeal from the Registration of a Maintenance Order) [2022] EWCA Civ 641
Lord Justice Lewison, Lord Justice Moylan and Lord Justice Baker.Case concerning the extent of the right to appeal from the registration in England and Wales of a foreign child maintenance order.M and F were married in the USA but made their home in Engla…
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
- Jurisdiction
- Appeals
- International Enforcement
!11/05/2022 16:32
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G v W [2022] EWHC 101 (Fam)
Sir Jonathan Cohen.An appeal in Schedule 1 proceedings following Re A (Schedule 1, Overspend, Costs Clawback) ⁠[2022] EWFC 21. Permission was granted to M to appeal the decision to dismiss her claim for additional payments for a nanny, and additio…
- Cases
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Costs
!11/05/2022 09:43
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Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 45
Mostyn J. W’s application for enforcement of interim maintenance order (maintenance decision summarised here. H had negligently failed to pay wages of staff at the parties’ house in Antibes, such payments being part of the interim order. While court did n…
- Cases
- Enforcement
- Maintenance Pending Suit
!26/04/2022 09:00
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Fattal v Fattal [2022] EHWC 950 (Ch)
Deputy Master Hansen.The claimant bought a property in 1972. In 1990 he transferred it to his brother, the defendant, in the mistaken belief that the latter had paid him £400,000. Although the brothers lived there together, the judge found no common inten…
- Cases
- TOLATA Claims
!22/04/2022 13:21
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Lockwood v Greenbaum [2022] EWHC 845 (Fam)
Moor J.W applied for permission in this jurisdiction to bring an application pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (‘1984 Act’) for financial provision following a divorce in New Zealand. Permission was refused at first i…
- Cases
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Appeals
!13/04/2022 09:00
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Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30
Mostyn J.Comprehensive survey of law on anonymisation of judgments; [74]–[142]. Correct question is 'Why is it in the public interest that the parties should be anonymous?' rather than 'Why is it in the public interest that the parties should be named?'…
- Cases
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Costs
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Release from Undertakings
!12/04/2022 09:00
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Enal v Singh & Ors (Trinidad and Tobago) [2022] UKPC 13
Lords Briggs, Kitchin and Hamblen, Lady Rose, and Sir Nicholas Patten.On appeal to the Privy Council from the CA of Trinidad and Tobago. Mr Maharaj, the father of R and S, paid for a parcel of commercial properties which he placed in the name of R and S u…
- Cases
- Presumption of Advancement
- TOLATA Claims
- Resulting Trusts
- Undue Influence
- Role of Appellate Court
- Appeals
!11/04/2022 09:00
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Ali v Khatib & Ors [2022] EWCA Civ 481
Asplin, Stuart-Smith and Andrews LJJ.Multigenerational family home. Mrs Bibi lived in her home with one of her sons and his family (the respondents) and in a 2003 will left the home to them. Some years after her death, this will was successfully challenge…
- Cases
- TOLATA Claims
- Occupation Rent
!08/04/2022 09:00
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Traharne v Limb [2022] EWFC 27
Cohen J. Final hearing in W’s financial remedies application in which argument centred on a post-nuptial agreement (PNA) entered into by the parties shortly prior to separation. W argued that she had been subjected to coercive and controlling behaviour an…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
- Agreements
- Needs
!31/03/2022 09:00