
Cases
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CG v SG [2023] EWHC 942 (Fam)10 March 2023
HHJ Hess. A final hearing in financial remedy proceedings heard over six days.Both parties were in their sixties and had a long marriage of 30 years. The children were all adult and independent. During the marriage, the W, a qualified nurse, had taken on…
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Experts
- Companies
- Costs
- Valuations
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H v W [2023] EWFC 12014 July 2023
HHJ Reardon KC. This case concerns cross-applications regarding a final financial remedy order made in May 2021 (the 2021 order) by Recorder Anderson. This included an application by H for a further lump sum to compensate him for losses due to W’s a…
- Cases
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
- Conduct
- Delay
- Costs
- Striking Out Applications
- Cross-Applications
- Compensation Principle
- Enforcement
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Li v Simons [2023] EWHC 1626 (Fam)30 June 2023
Moor J. Judgment on an appeal against an order made in a variation of maintenance application.The parties reached an agreement settling the financial claims arising out of their marriage in April 2020, and a consent order was made in those terms in July 2…
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Costs
- Variation Applications
- Appeals
- Litigation Misconduct
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RA v KS [2023] EWFC 10223 June 2023
Recorder Allen KC. Determination of W’s application for an interim order for sale. At an earlier directions hearing following a private FDR, the judge raised whether there was jurisdiction to order vacant possession of the property under s 33 of the…
- Cases
- Sale of Property
- Interim Order For Sale
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Hughes v Pritchard and Others [2023] EWHC 1382 (Ch)12 June 2023
HHJ Keyser KC. Propriety estoppel case. Cattle farmer Evan Hughes died leaving three children, the claimant Gareth Hughes, the defendant Carys Richards, and another child, Elfed, whose widow Gwen Hughes was the second defendant. The remaining defendants w…
- Cases
- Unconscionability
- Detrimental Reliance
- Proprietary Estoppel
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DR v UG [2023] EWFC 685 April 2023
Moor J. The parties were Danish. H was aged 57 and W aged 49. Children aged 18, 16, and 16. Married 2004, marriage broke down in 2019.H was CEO of a drugs manufacturer but staged a management buy-out which gave him 70% shares. His purchase was funded…
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Special Contribution
- Delay
- Valuations
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EK v DK & Ors [2023] EWHC 1829 (Fam)11 May 2023
Mr Justice Francis. Application by W to set aside consent order dated March 2018 on basis of H’s non-disclosure.This was a long marriage with three teenage/young adult children at the time of separation. The Trustees of two trusts, the LK (No 2 Sett…
- Cases
- Variation of Settlements
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Consent Orders
- Liquidity
- Valuations
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
- Trusts
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AB v CD [2022] EWFC 1975 January 2022
HHJ Shelton. Cross applications to vary a global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance. The global order at the time of this judgment was £1,250pcm (£1,249 child and £1pm spousal).Th…
- Cases
- Global Maintenance Orders
- Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Needs
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Koukash v Koukash [2022] EWHC 1001 (Fam)11 April 2022
Cohen J. Appeal from decision of HHJ Greensmith on quantification of lump sum, which had been based on privileged FDR documents.The first instance judge had to determine what amount of lump sum was to be paid by H to W. Both H and W had on and off legal r…
- Cases
- Privilege
- Appeals
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CG v DL [2023] EWFC 8225 May 2023
Cohen J. This was the final hearing in the W’s application for financial remedies, following a long relationship of 27/28 years, during which the parties had two children aged 13 and 19.Both parties were initially journalists. The W became a full-ti…
- Cases
- Post Separation Assets