Cases
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NO v PQ [2023] EWFC 3623 February 2023
Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. Agreement between the parties upheld notwithstanding H’s predicament of real need – ‘an unusual outcome … but justified as the only fair one on the facts’; [8]. W aged 60 and H aged 58, long marriage,…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Needs
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EL v ML [2023] EWFC 4315 February 2023
HHJ Hess. Final hearing in relation to W’s application for permission to appeal a consent order from March 2021 which varied a final financial remedy order from 2019.Initial proceedings concluded in 2019, W made an application for enforcement of per…
- Cases
- Waiver of Privilege
- Appeals
- Consent Orders
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Teasdale v Carter and Teasdale [2023] EWHC 490 (Fam)7 March 2023
Moor J. Appeal in farming estoppel case with astronomical costs far exceeding the value of the property in question.The first respondent, Ms Carter, was the elder daughter of the appellant mother and second respondent father. During the parents’ fin…
- Cases
- TLATA Applications
- Costs
- Joinder of Third Parties
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MN v AN [2023] EWHC 613 (Fam)10 March 2023
Moor J. H’s application that W show cause why she should not be held to the terms of a 2005 (pre-Radmacher) prenuptial agreement. H’s premarital assets £32.5 million and W’s £62,000. Negotiations through leading solicitors resu…
- Cases
- Agreements
- Conduct
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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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