
Cases
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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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Nicolaisen v Nicolaisen [2022] EWFC 701 July 2022
Moor J. A case involving complex jurisdiction arguments, habitual residence, international marital agreements and underlying assets worth over £200m.Husband (‘H’) was 70 years old and a Norwegian national. The Wife (‘W’) was 50 years old, born in Turkmeni…
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Forum Disputes
- Forum
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XO v YO & Anor [2022] EWFC 11422 September 2022
HHJ Hess. Financial remedies decision concerning whether English court had jurisdiction to determine a claim in respect of immovable property situated outside England where the claim is based on equity; and can adverse inferences be drawn from a party’s f…
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Disclosure
- Jurisdiction
- Conduct
- Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and Their Recognition
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HA v WA v BV [2022] EWFC 11027 September 2022
Sir Jonathan Cohen. Issue between the parties in relation to beneficial ownership of a property held in the W’s sole name. H’s case was that the property belonged legally and beneficially to the W, where the W’s case was that the property was beneficially…
- Cases
- Trusts
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Pierburg v Pierburg [2022] EWHC 2701 (Fam)9 September 2022
Facts Moor J (‘the judge’) dealt with an application made by Clarissa Gisela Pierburg (‘W’) for financial provision after an overseas divorce pursuant to Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984. The respondent was Jurgen Pierburg (‘H’)…
- Cases
- Repudiation
- Agreements
- Jurisdiction
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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AB v CD [2022] EWFC 11629 July 2022
Roberts J (‘the judge’) dealt with an application to set aside a consent order made in financial remedy proceedings, and a responding application to strike out or summarily dismiss H’s application. The parties were both independently wealthy and had a sho…
- Cases
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Striking Out Applications
- Valuation of Shares
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Quashie v Solomon [2022] UKPC 3430 September 2022
Emlyn Quashie (Administratrix Pendente Lite of the Estate of the Deceased Beresford Solomon) (Appellant) v Ayana Solomon (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) [2022] UKPC 34.
- Cases