Cases
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Rose v Rose & Ors [2022] EWFC 19225 November 2022
His Honour Judge Booth (sitting as a Judge of the High Court pursuant to s 9 SCA 1981).How should the court ‘deal with a respondent husband who has been dishonest throughout, has failed to comply with court orders, has failed to provide relevant fin…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Variation of Settlements
- Trusts
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Joanne Lewis v Cunningtons Solicitors [2023] EWHC 822 (KB)31 March 2023
HHJ Coe KC. Successful negligence claim in relation to pensions advice on divorce.The Claimant, after receiving some advice from the Defendants, but in the absence of full disclosure, entered into direct discussions with her husband and then instructed th…
- Cases
- Professional Negligence
- Pensions on Divorce
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James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam)19 April 2023
Mostyn J. An appeal concerning the correct approach to the calculation of child maintenance liability in which Mostyn J adds to the ever-expanding repository of family law acronyms.
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Child Support
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Cummings v Fawn [2023] EWHC 830 (Fam)14 April 2023
Mostyn J. Judgment on W’s appeal. W sought to argue that an agreement reached (and upheld by the court) should be negated or vitiated by undue influence or other oppressive conduct by the H, in addition to a number of grounds of appeal, including H&…
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Costs
- Appeals
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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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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