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

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’.

• Blog

• Chattels

• Nicholas Allen KC

!28/04/2025 14:00

BR v BR [2025] EWFC 884 April 2025

Peel J. Final Hearing in Ultra High Net Worth FR case involving valuations of complex business structures.

• Cases

• Sharing Principle
• Company Valuations
• Wells Sharing
• Experts
• Companies
• Costs
• Valuations

• Minahil Tariq

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

What Does Equality of Pension Capital Mean?

I started writing expert witness reports around 2005 and, right from the start, a regular question was, ‘Should we seek equality of income or equality of capital?’ Letters of Instruction regularly ask the expert to calculate ‘The pension…

• Journal

• George Mathieson

!03/07/2023 08:00