Cases
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Tickle v The Father & Ors [2025] EWFC 1609 June 2025
Henke J. Procedural judgment in children proceedings reaffirming legal protections for journalistic sources and highlighting the limits of transparency in the family courts.
- Cases
- Transparency
- Publicity and Confidentiality
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GR v AR [2025] EWFC 143 (B)10 March 2025
HHJ Hess (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). Application of the sharing principle and dispute over matrimonial vs non matrimonial property in HNW financial remedy case.
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Shares
- High Net Worth
- Family Home
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THR v WAT [2025] EWHC 1125 (Fam)17 March 2025
HHJ Hess navigated his way through an Xydhias puzzle. Parties informed the judge they were Xydhias-bound but then argued over (i) a £2m asset, (ii) costs, (iii) an interest provision, and (iv) security. The court’s conclusions, in a nutshell, were that if it had not been raised at the time or in the written agreement, then the court would favour the written agreement.
- Cases
- Agreements
- Child Periodical Payments
- Child Maintenance
- Xydhias
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CA v UK [2025] EWFC 117 (B)10 January 2025
HHJ Watkins. A substantive application by the father for a child maintenance order under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 (‘Schedule 1’); [12]. Within the application, the main issue concerned the most suitable jurisdiction for child maintenance dispute resolution. There were two jurisdictions involved in the forum conveniens dispute namely England and Wales and California.
- Cases
- Forum Conveniens
- Jurisdiction
- Child Maintenance
- Variation
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Forum Disputes
- Enforcement
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AB v CD & Ors [2025] EWFC 95813 February 2025
HHJ Richard Williams. Judgment following a trial of a preliminary issue in financial remedy proceedings to determine (a) if a transfer of shares was made with the intention to defeat a claim for financial relief and should therefore be set aside and (b) if a loan had been made and, if so, if it had since been waived.
- Cases
- Loans
- Valuations
- Trusts
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SM v BA (No 2: Maintenance Pending Suit) [2025] EWFC 2819 February 2025
Nicholas Allen KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application to increase maintenance pending suit (MPS) in ‘super-rich’ financial remedies case.
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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DSD v MJW (Costs of MPS) [2025] EWFC 119 (B)24 April 2025
DDJ David Hodson. Proportionality and maintenance pending suit (MPS), a cautionary tale. In this case the DDJ concluded that the game was very much not worth the candle, and the application turned out to be very costly for the applicant wife.
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
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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
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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
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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
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