Cases
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Abigail Laura Williams v Andrew John Williams [2024] EWFC 2756 August 2024
Final order of Moor J in financial remedy proceedings involving a husband who had continually breached court orders, failed to attend hearings, and provided unreliable and ‘demonstrably untrue’ evidence.
- Cases
- Non-Disclosure
- Adverse Inferences
- Freezing Injunctions
- Conduct
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Disclosure from Third Parties
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Mainwaring v Bailey [2024] EWHC 2614 (Fam)16 October 2024
Henke J ordered the husband to pay the wife’s costs assessed on a standard basis following his ‘hopeless appeal’. In response to the husband’s plea that he should be treated as a litigant-in-person and he did not understand the Family Procedure Rules, Henke J was emphatic that litigants in person are expected to comply with the procedural rules as much as represented parties.
- Cases
- Costs
- Appeals
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FC v WC [2024] EWFC 29121 October 2024
HHJ Vincent sitting as a s 9 Deputy High Court Judge. The parties entered a French form of civil partnership when living in France. After returning to live in England in 2022, they were informed that their dissolution was not capable of recognition under s 235(1) CPA 2004 as at the commencement of their dissolution neither party to the dissolution was a French national and was not resident or domiciled in France.
- Cases
- Experts
- Civil Partnerships
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Lloyd Dorian Williams v Gerwyn Lloyd Williams & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 421 February 2024
King, Asplin, and Nugee LJJ. Family farm. No dispute that applicant/appellant and his parents acquired the property on trust for themselves as equal co-owners. Absent express declaration, did they hold as joint tenants or tenants in common?
- Cases
- TLATA Applications
- Survivorship (Right Of)
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HJB v WPB [2024] EWFC 18710 July 2024
HHJ Vincent. Preliminary hearing to determine whether parties should be held to a separation agreement. Agreement found to be ‘presumptively dispositive’. An agreement will not be unpicked merely because a business has thereafter performed well.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Agreements
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V v V (Financial Remedy Hearing) [2024] EWFC 255 (B)6 September 2024
HHJ Willans. Three-day final financial remedy hearing involving the computation of the assets available for distribution including properties in India.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Modest Asset Cases
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NW v BH [2024] EWFC 118 (B)23 May 2024
Recorder Rhys Taylor. Evidentially complex final hearing in needs-based case involving verbal Daniels v Walker application, abandoning of SJE report, disclosure inadequacies, and an intervenor being removed.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Daniels v Walker Application
- Joinder of Third Parties
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BI v EN [2024] EWFC 200 (Fam)29 July 2024
Decision of Cusworth J concluding financial remedy proceedings between W and H. The principal issue concerned the extent to which the outcome of W’s application for financial remedies should be impacted by the ‘Contrat de Mariage’ (the elected séparation de biens property regime).
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Sharing Principle
- Agreements
- Compensation Principle
- Needs
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MR v EF [2024] EWFC 144 (B)20 June 2024
Recorder Rhys Taylor in financial remedy proceedings makes findings in favour of the wife as to the date of separation of the parties.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Duration of the Marriage
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IN v CH [2024] EWFC 2338 July 2024
Mr Stephen Trowell KC. The husband and wife made competing applications for an order for sale in respect of the matrimonial home and a yacht. The court found that the wife did not have a beneficial interest in the matrimonial home and ordered the property to be sold. The wife’s application to sell the yacht was unsuccessful as it belonged to a company, AB, who had not been joined to the proceedings.
- Cases
- Sale of Property
- Interim Relief
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Trusts
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