
Cases: Needs
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CMX v EJX (French Marriage Contract) [2020] EWFC 1362 November 2022
Moor J. The Husband (‘H’) was a 56 year old French national and Chairman of Industrial Investment Banking at bank. The Wife (‘W’) was French/Lebanese/British, 54 years old and had a successful career in the bottled water industry. They lived in England.Mr…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Pensions on Divorce
- Needs
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AB v CD [2022] EWFC 19816 September 2022
HHJ Shelton. Hearing on 14–15 July 2022. Cross-applications to vary global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance order.
- Cases
- Global Maintenance Orders
- Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Needs
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X v C [2022] EWFC 7912 July 2022
HHJ Farquhar.Modest asset financial remedy case published as part of commitment to publication of court judgments at all levels. Assets comprised FMH H’s sole name, net equity c.£258k; a house owned by W and her former husband in which the latt…
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Housing Need
- Pensions on Divorce
- Conduct
- Tax
- Section 25(1) First Consideration
- Needs
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AZ v BZ (Financial Remedies Appeal) [2020] EWFC B8622 May 2022
HHJ Vincent. Appeal by H of a financial remedy order where on a clean break basis the assets were divided 99/1 in favour of W.
- Cases
- Personal Injury Awards
- Appeals
- Needs
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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D v D (Financial Remedy Case) [2020] EWFC B2420 May 2022
DJ John Smart.Rare reported modest asset case. Identification of needs in a marriage that, with prior cohab, had lasted only 10 months. Parties aged 51 and 49. Modest assets, almost all brought into the marriage by H, including the FMH in H’s sole name an…
- Cases
- Duration of the Marriage
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Conduct
- Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
- Needs
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ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 12819 May 2022
Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'. In 2010, the parties m…
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Tax
- Needs
- Trusts
- Add-Backs
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 4113 May 2022
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
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Conduct
- Needs
- Premarital Cohabitation
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WC v HC [2022] EWFC 4011 May 2022
Peel J: costs awarded in needs case reducing substantive award.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
- Needs
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Traharne v Limb [2022] EWFC 2731 March 2022
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
- Agreements
- Conduct
- Costs
- Needs
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WC v HC (Financial Remedies Agreement) (Rev1) [2022] EWFC 2222 March 2022
Peel J.W’s financial remedy application resulted in a needs-based award of £7.45m net (c.60%). H was from a very wealthy family, and the parties’ lifestyle had been funded by H’s father via annual gifts which had ceased since the divorce proceedings. A po…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Efficient Conduct
- Prospective Inheritance
- Needs