Cases
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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
- Non-Disclosure
- Disclosure
- Undue Influence
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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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
- Conduct
- Companies
- Costs
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Professional Ethics
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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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
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Enforcement
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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
- Non-Qualifying Ceremony
- Validity of marriage
- Jurisdiction
- Locus Lex Celebrationis
- Void Marriage
- Transfer of Tenancy
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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
- Agreements
- Needs
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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
- Waiver of Privilege
- Appeals
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Teasdale v Carter and Teasdale [2023] EWHC 490 (Fam)7 March 2023
Moor J. Appeal in farming estoppel case with astronomical costs far exceeding the value of the property in question.The first respondent, Ms Carter, was the elder daughter of the appellant mother and second respondent father. During the parents’ fin…
- Cases
- TLATA Applications
- Costs
- Joinder of Third Parties
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MN v AN [2023] EWHC 613 (Fam)10 March 2023
Moor J. H’s application that W show cause why she should not be held to the terms of a 2005 (pre-Radmacher) prenuptial agreement. H’s premarital assets £32.5 million and W’s £62,000. Negotiations through leading solicitors resu…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Conduct
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