Cases
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A (former wife) v A (former husband) [2023] EWFC 4
Recorder Laura Moys. Helpful approach to case management with exceptionally difficult LiP.W was 57, H 59. They separated after 30 years of marriage, producing one child (now aged 30). The assets were worth £1.3m. W was a manager at her local county counci…
- Cases
- Managing Difficult Hearings
- Conduct
!12/01/2023 09:00
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DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 6
HHJ Madeleine Reardon. Finding of economic abuse and consideration of whether it met the level of s 25 conduct.Parties aged 49 (W) and 59 (H), married 1994, separated 2018, children adults. Marriage void for W’s bigamy, but with no findings made and…
- Cases
- Needs
- Costs
- Add-Backs
- Economic Abuse
- Conduct
!10/01/2023 09:00
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(1) Dixon (2) Dixon v The Crown Estate Commissioners [2022] EWHC 3256
Judge Hodge KC. The claimants sought vesting orders in respect of two properties, following the striking off and dissolution of the company (in which the claimants had previously been shareholders) which was the registered proprietor. The Crown disclaimed…
- Cases
- Proprietary Estoppel
- Companies
- Trusts
!22/12/2022 09:00
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Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648
Lewison, Andrews and Nugee LJJ. Second appeal on whether detriment remained a requirement of a constructive trust, given not mentioned in either Stack or Kernott.Unmarried couple, house in joint names. On separation, parties agreed that Ms Hathaway would…
- Cases
- s 53 LPA 1925
- Detrimental Reliance
- TOLATA Claims
- Signature
!14/12/2022 09:00
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A Wife v A Husband [2022] EWFC 154
HHJ Vincent. Consent order provided for W to receive lump sum in instalments for purpose of housing herself and the children, and spousal and child periodical payments. W relocated and sought accelerated receipt. Further consent order provided for this, b…
- Cases
- Variation Applications
- Child Maintenance
- Costs
- Cohabitation of Recipient of Spousal Maintenance
- Conduct
!06/12/2022 09:00
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TM v KM [2022] EWFC 155
HHJ Hess. Application of compensation principle. W was 50 and had attended what many consider to be the finest business school in the world before a highly successful career in investment finance. In 2006 and 2007, before she ceased work, W earned £505,00…
- Cases
- Compensation Principle
!02/12/2022 09:00
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WD v MH [2022] EWFC 162
Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. H was 66 and W 61. Short marriage.Within judicial separation proceedings (although neither party could confirm why such were preferred to divorce), the parties agreed (the 2008 Agreement), inter alia, the following:H to pay W a lu…
- Cases
- Delay
- Costs
- Agreements
!18/11/2022 09:00
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Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 135
Mostyn J. Ultra high net worth financial remedies where there there was a 2014 postnuptial agreement (a 2012 prenup modified after marriage). H was a billionaire real estate developer and parties ‘lived a billionaire lifestyle’.PNA created separate proper…
- Cases
- Secured Provision
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Child Maintenance
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Agreements
!14/11/2022 09:00
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P v P (Treatment of costs in sharing cases) [2022] EWFC 158
DDJ David Hodson. The court published this discrete judgment to address several issues of legal costs in a wholly sharing claim. This was a case which ‘should never have got to Form A, let alone a final hearing’; W had incurred £130,000 in legal costs whe…
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Add-Backs
!14/11/2022 09:00
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J v H [2022] EWFC 133
Peel J. H’s application for a freezing injunction. Reference to Mostyn J’s guidance from UL v BK and the importance of compliance with the pre-requisites set out in that case.H’s initial application was essentially without notice as short, informal notice…
- Cases
- Costs
- Freezing Injunctions
!09/11/2022 09:00
