Cases
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PN v SA [2025] EWFC 14123 May 2025
Cobb J. Third-largest financial remedy case in the jurisdiction’s history. The judge set aside a separation agreement entered into by W under significant emotional and psychological pressure.
- Cases
- Agreements
- Coercive Control
- Undue Influence
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AP v TP (Pension Enforcement) [2025] EWFC 190 (B)13 June 2025
HHJ Farquhar. Application by husband to set aside a PSO under the Thwaite jurisdiction due to the wife’s sustained non-compliance. The court held that continued enforcement of the PSO would be inequitable given the respondent’s conduct, the applicant’s age and deteriorating health, and the executory nature of the order.
- Cases
- Barder Applications
- Pensions on Divorce
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
- Delay
- Executory Orders
- Enforcement
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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PZ v ZD (Financial Remedies: Needs: Adverse Inferences: Taking of Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction) [2025] EWFC 171 (B)20 March 2025
Judgment by DDJ G Evans in a modest asset case involving significant non-disclosure and the taking of evidence from a respondent in a non-Hague Convention jurisdiction (here, Pakistan).
- Cases
- Indemnity Against Unknown Liabilities
- Adverse Inferences
- Attendance From Outside The Jurisdiction
- Debts
- Needs
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Adodo v Tan [2025] EWFC 184 (B)27 June 2025
HHJ Rodgers. Re-hearing following an appeal to the Court of Appeal against a final order made by District Judge Severn on 10 October 2022. On appeal, it was held there had been a misunderstanding of crucial funds available overseas, leading to a fundamentally flawed final decision.
- Cases
- Overseas Assets
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Sharing
- Departure From Equality
- Costs
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JQ v IQ [2025] EWFC 192 (B)23 June 2025
HHJ Vincent. A Pakistani divorce was deemed to be valid in the UK on public policy grounds and permission was granted for the wife to bring financial remedies proceedings in this jurisdiction.This hearing concerned the wife’s application under s 13…
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Divorce Orders
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- International Enforcement
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Dervis v Deniz [2025] EWHC 902 (Ch)11 April 2025
Edwin Johnson J. TLATA judgment setting out the circumstances in which a new claim can be pursued on appeal, the law regarding the ‘release’ of one’s beneficial interest in property to another joint tenant, and the differences between re…
- Cases
- TLATA Claims
- Property
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Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 262 July 2025
Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens (with whom Lord Reed, Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Simler agree). The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed W’s appeal, upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision, and clarified application of the sharing principle and matrimonialisation.
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
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JP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and LH [2025] UKUT 1627 March 2025
Upper Tribunal Judge Citron. Application for a variation to a child support maintenance calculation under regs 69 or 69A of the Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012. Interpretation of s 8(6) CSA 1991. Error of law immaterial when liability exceeds statutory cap anyway.
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
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M v B [2025] EWFC 18225 June 2025
Sir Jonathan Cohen (sitting as a judge of the High Court). Financial remedy proceedings considering the court’s power to strike out applications under FPR 4.4, having regard to the effect of FPR 9.9A.
- Cases
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
- Executory Orders
- Striking Out Applications
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MNV v CNV [2025] EWFC 176 (B)19 June 2025
DDJ Bradshaw. Drastic change in personal circumstances results in add-back in small money case.
- Cases
- Liabilities
- Housing Need
- Small Money
- Mortgage Capacity
- Costs
- Soft Loans
- Needs
- Earning Capacity
- Add-Backs
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