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

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

VTY v GDB [2025] EWFC 110 (B)24 April 2025

Recorder Taylor. Final hearing in a financial remedy application which concerned issues of non-disclosure and allegations of asset concealment in different countries. The matter also involved foreign litigation which appeared to undermine the existing proceedings in this jurisdiction. The parties married in 1999 and have two adult children and one aged 16. The family structure was a traditional one with H being the breadwinner and W the homemaker.

• Cases

• Foreign Assets
• Non-Disclosure
• Chattels
• Adverse Inferences
• School Fees
• Fraud
• Costs
• Duxbury Capitalisation
• Debts
• Foreign Judgments

• Stephanie Coker

GH v IH [2025] EWFC 120 (B)10 April 2025

District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing on enforcement and variation of 2012 financial remedy order. The primary issue to be determined was the enforcement and variation of a joint lives periodical payments order made in 2012.

• Cases

• Periodical Payments
• Variation
• Duxbury Capitalisation
• Needs
• Enforcement

• Stephanie Coker