SV v AV [2024] EWFC 86 (B)7 February 2024

DJ Ashworth. Final financial remedy hearing involving the weight to be attached to a pre-nuptial agreement, non-matrimonial and matrimonial property, and the computation of assets.

• Cases

• Pre-Nuptial Agreements
• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Cohabitation

• Katie Stephens

Child Maintenance and Mortgage Payments – New Guidance: LM v SSWP & NM [2024] UKUT 259 (AAC)

What happens if the Child Maintenance Service has determined that a non-resident parent is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care, but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children? Does it matter if the property is jointly owned by NRP and PWC? Will those mortgage payments reduce the amount of child maintenance?

• Blog

• Mortgages
• Child Maintenance

• Gwynfor Evans

!29/11/2024 06:00

Delaying a Divorce Because of Financial Prejudice: The New No-fault Law and Practice

There can be real loss and prejudice in some divorce cases if the final divorce order, previously the decree absolute, is granted before the final financial settlement and its implementation in circumstances when the paying party then dies.

• Blog
• Journal

• divorce

• Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb

!07/10/2024 22:10

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

Once upon a time, not so long ago, ‘ancillary relief’ was something of a legal backwater. Cases were determined solely by reference to ‘reasonable requirements’. Procedural rules, to the extent they existed, were short and loosely applied. Parties filed narrative affidavits of means and answered requests for further and better particulars.

• Journal

• Procedure
• Financial Remedies

• Alexander Chandler KC

!22/11/2024 06:00

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

• Stephanie Coker