Apportioning Pension Assets to the Marital Period in Divorce

Dividing pension assets is critical for a fair divorce settlement. This summary focuses on pension sharing, the legal splitting of pension rights between divorcing parties via a Pension Sharing Order, applicable in England and Wales.

• Blog

• Pensions

• Paul Windle

!01/05/2025 13:00

Chattels: What If They Are Not to Be Divided by Agreement?

Chattels are often in dispute between parties to financial remedy proceedings. However their division is something their lawyers are very happy not to get involved with. Little is more likely to lead to a sigh of relief than the words ‘Chattels – to be divided by agreement’.

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• Chattels

• Nicholas Allen KC

!28/04/2025 14:00

Standish – Reporting Remotely from the Front Line

On Wednesday 30 April 2025 I was sat at home in London, feeling somewhat retired but eager to know what the Supreme Court has to say about matrimonialisation of property and the sharing principle. So too were Mr and Mrs Standish.

• Blog

• Sharing Principle
• Gifts

• Holly Symonds

!02/05/2025 11:11

Kathryn Elizabeth Norman v Michael Ian Norman [2025] EWFC 107 (B)17 April 2025

District Judge Veal. Alleged material non-disclosure, W’s totally without merit application issued in October 2024 after seven rounds of litigation including W’s D50K application, settled by agreement, made when she knew about H’s alleged non-disclosure. W ordered to pay costs on indemnity basis. Warning given regarding the use of websites leading to jigsaw identification and thereby breaching FPR 9.46(3).

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Costs
• Consent Orders
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Elizabeth Bowden

Galbraith-Marten v De Renee (Extension of Extended Civil Restraint Order) [2025] EWFC 9615 April 2025

Cobb J. Application for an extension of an extended civil restraint order and an application for further financial orders within long-running financial remedy proceedings.

• Cases

• Civil Restraint Orders

• Katie Stephens