Cases
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YC v ZC [2022] EWFC 13717 October 2022
HHJ Hess. After over 30 years of marriage, the husband’s ('H') application for financial remedy. H was a 60-year-old businessman, described by the judge at [6] as ‘a driven character with … a tendency to … take personal and financial risks and live life ‘…
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Add-Backs
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A v B [2022] EWFC 14925 May 2022
HHJ Reardon. W’s application under s 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 for declaration that no valid marriage subsisted between the parties because at the time of the purported wedding, conducted by a priest of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Sa…
- Cases
- Nullity
- Validity of marriage
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Boughajdim v Hayoukane [2022] EWHC 2673 (Fam)21 October 2022
MacDonald J. Long-running complex dispute over validity of marriage. W wanted a divorce; H said there was no marriage to dissolve.A valid marriage can be conducted in Morocco without a formal ceremony. W argued that a marriage had taken place albeit witho…
- Cases
- Lex Loci Celebrationis
- Validity of marriage
- Estoppel Res Judicatam
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Parveen v Hussain and the Queen’s Proctor [2022] EWCA Civ 14344 November 2022
Moylan, Asplin and Stuart-Smith LJJ. W was domiciled in Pakistan when her former husband pronounced talaq while in England. The talaq decree issued by a British mosque was certified by the Pakistani authorities as valid in Pakistan. W then married H in Pa…
- Cases
- Nullity
- divorce
- Validity of marriage
- Conflict of Law
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ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 12819 May 2022
Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'. In 2010, the parties m…
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Tax
- Needs
- Trusts
- Add-Backs
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Stacey v McNicholas [2022] EWHC 278 (Fam)2 November 2022
Moor J. Under Schedule 1, F had been ordered to pay a lump sum of £350,000 to the M to act as a housing fund, in addition to a sum of £50,000 on standard Schedule 1 terms. F was granted permission to appeal solely in relation to the lump sum of £350k.M ap…
- Cases
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 13514 November 2022
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
- Agreements
- Child Maintenance
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Duxbury Capitalisation
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Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 4526 April 2022
Mostyn J. W’s application for enforcement of interim maintenance order (maintenance decision summarised here. H had negligently failed to pay wages of staff at the parties’ house in Antibes, such payments being part of the interim order. While court did n…
- Cases
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Enforcement
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J v H [2022] EWFC 1339 November 2022
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
- Freezing Injunctions
- Costs
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CMX v EJX (French Marriage Contract) [2020] EWFC 1362 November 2022
Moor J. The Husband (‘H’) was a 56 year old French national and Chairman of Industrial Investment Banking at bank. The Wife (‘W’) was French/Lebanese/British, 54 years old and had a successful career in the bottled water industry. They lived in England.Mr…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Pensions on Divorce
- Needs
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