The Express Financial Remedy Pilot – a Fast Track to Success or Turmoil?

A fast-track pilot scheme for financial remedy cases is running from 7 April 2025 to 3 April 2026 in courts in the north of England. It applies by default to all cases started there where net assets (excluding pensions) are less than £250,000. It is possible to request to be removed from the express pilot and it will be interesting to follow the numbers of cases where that is granted.

• Blog

• Express Financial Remedy Procedure

• Caroline Bowden

!25/04/2025 14:00

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

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

Pre-Nuptial Agreements: an ‘Oven-Ready’ Solution to a Pressing Problem? A House of Lords Debate

Late last month, Baroness Deech brought a motion in the House of Lords, ‘That this House takes note of the law relating to prenuptial agreements’. The debate came against the backdrop of Baroness Deech having (of course) long pursued financial remedies reform through her Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill.

• Blog

• Pre-Nuptial Agreements

• Joanne Edwards
• Ellen Jones
• Renesha Hodgson

!13/03/2025 16:45

N v J: the Last Word on Domestic Abuse as Conduct?

On Monday last week, in In N v J [2024] EWFC 184 (15 July 2024), Mr Justice Peel handed down the most recent authority on pleading conduct pursuant to s 25(2)(g) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Those interested in this area have been keen to see whether Mr Justice Peel, as the Lead Judge of the Financial Remedies Court, would move the dial either in terms of procedure, or the application of the substantive law. Like all of Mr Justice Peel’s judgments, it is erudite, comprehensive and concise. It is also timely.

• Blog

• Domestic Abuse
• Conduct

• Samantha Hillas KC
• Olivia Piercy
• Anita Mehta

!24/07/2024 10:05