Cases
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SS v RS [2023] EWFC 32 (Fam)16 March 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen. Application by H, inter alia, for compensation relating to delay in W complying with an undertaking to use her best endeavours to procure the release of H from the mortgage on the family home following a financial remedy order in 2019.…
- Cases
- Domestic Abuse
- Costs
- Undertakings
- Striking Out Applications
- Compensation Principle
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Re P (Service on Parent in a Refuge) [2023] EWHC 47120 March 2023
McFarlane P. Guidance from President of Family Division on service of legal documents on a person thought to be living in a refuge. FPR 2010 does not address this. In this case, W was in a refuge and location and disclosure orders had been made against a…
- Cases
- Refuge
- Service
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Kaur v Singh and Others [2023] EWHC 304 (Fam)14 February 2023
Peel J. Claim under the Inheritance Act 1975 for reasonable financial provision from her deceased husband under Part 8 of the CPR. The claim was undefended. The claimant sought half of the estate which she estimated at £995,000. The will left the est…
- Cases
- Inheritance Act Applications
- Reasonable Financial Provision
- Needs
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KM v CV [2022] EWFC 1741 March 2023
HHJ Robinson. Case concerning pensions where neither party had any capital. FMH had been sold with £10,000 left after payment of mortgage and costs.Case concerned treatment of W’s two police pensions. Pension expert, Mr Nobbs, concluded equalis…
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Benefits
- Needs
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Goddard-Watts v Goddard-Watts [2023] EWCA Civ 11515 February 2023
Lady Justice Macur, Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lady Justice Carr.W’s appeal of order made by Sir Jonathan Cohen in January 2022 (see previous case summary) using the ‘Kingdon approach’. On two separate occasions since settlement of f…
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 610 January 2023
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
- Economic Abuse
- Conduct
- Costs
- Needs
- Add-Backs
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G v G (Confiscation Order: Conduct) [2023] EWFC 1626 January 2023
HHJ Robinson. The Husband ('H') was 53, the Wife ('W') 50. Having cohabited from 1999 and married in 2006, the parties had two children of ages 15 and 11. W was a secretary but a debilitating illness precluded her from working. H was a doctor before he wa…
- Cases
- Conduct
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Timokhin v Timokhina [2023] EWHC 58 (Fam)17 January 2023
Roberts J. Was a decision to stay a Sch 1 application pending conclusion of proceedings in another jurisdiction a substantive or procedural one?The parties were Russian nationals and parents to two children, aged 11 and 18. The children had lived in Londo…
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Appeals
- Striking Out Applications
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A (former wife) v A (former husband) [2023] EWFC 412 January 2023
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
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HD v WB [2023] EWFC 213 January 2023
Peel J. Financial remedy proceedings concerning the circumstances surrounding a PNA and the weight, if any, to be attached to it. Realisable assets almost entirely in W’s name exceeded £43m. H sought for the PNA to be completely disregarded as it was ente…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Costs
- Needs
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