Cases
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James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam)19 April 2023
Mostyn J. An appeal concerning the correct approach to the calculation of child maintenance liability in which Mostyn J adds to the ever-expanding repository of family law acronyms.The mother ('M') and father ('F') had married in 2010, but separated in 20…
- Cases
- Child Maintenance
- Child Support
- Variation Applications
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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Cummings v Fawn [2023] EWHC 830 (Fam)14 April 2023
Mostyn J. Judgment on W’s appeal. W sought to argue that an agreement reached (and upheld by the court) should be negated or vitiated by undue influence or other oppressive conduct by the H, in addition to a number of grounds of appeal, including H&…
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Consent Orders
- Costs
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
- Appeals
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HP v AP [2023] EWFC 4931 March 2023
HHJ Willans. Application to set aside a consent order on the basis that the H had failed to refer to two historic loans which were secured against a property in his sole legal name, but his father owned 100% of the beneficial interest. W argued that H…
- Cases
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
- Disclosure
- Undue Influence
- Non-Disclosure
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S v S (Conduct: Pensions) [2022] EWFC 17611 March 2023
HHJ Robinson. Financial remedy proceedings involving a police officer who was convicted of serious offences including rape of his W. H pension was permanently deducted by 1% following proceedings brought by his Local Police and Crime Commissioner. The…
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Conduct
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Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2023] EWFC 504 April 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen. The latest and, one hopes, final episode in a legal saga involving financial remedy, jurisdiction and children litigation spaning 60 hearings between Russia and England, in which H alone had sought counsel and legal advice from 7 firms…
- Cases
- Professional Ethics
- Companies
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Conduct
- Costs
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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X v Y, Re Z (No. 4 Schedule 1 award) [2023] EWFC 257 March 2023
Mr Justice Cobb. M’s application under Schedule 1 for financial provision from F, who lives in the USA, for Zoe who is 2 years 4 months old and suffers from Williams Syndrome. Zoe also has a congenital heart defect and displays global developmental…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Enforcement
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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Dignam-Thomas and Bebbington v McCourt and Another (Inheritance Act 1975) [2023] EWHC 546 (Fam)14 March 2023
Theis J. Application by two sisters in parlous financial and physical health for reasonable financial provision from their father’s estate, the estate having been left to their brother. Application was limited by 1975 Act to what was reasonable in a…
- Cases
- Inheritance Act Applications
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Tousi v Gayukova [2023] EWHC 404 (Fam)27 February 2023
Mostyn J. Does the court have jurisdiction to transfer a (housing association) tenancy between the parties to an invalid marriage? Do the consequences of invalidity fall to be determined under the law of the country of marriage, or only whether the marria…
- Cases
- Validity of marriage
- Void Marriage
- Locus Lex Celebrationis
- Transfer of Tenancy
- Non-Qualifying Ceremony
- Jurisdiction
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NO v PQ [2023] EWFC 3623 February 2023
Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. Agreement between the parties upheld notwithstanding H’s predicament of real need – ‘an unusual outcome … but justified as the only fair one on the facts’; [8]. W aged 60 and H aged 58, long marriage,…
- Cases
- Needs
- Agreements
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EL v ML [2023] EWFC 4315 February 2023
HHJ Hess. Final hearing in relation to W’s application for permission to appeal a consent order from March 2021 which varied a final financial remedy order from 2019.Initial proceedings concluded in 2019, W made an application for enforcement of per…
- Cases
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
- Waiver of Privilege
- Appeals
- Consent Orders
