Cases
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DH v RH (No 4) (Costs) [2024] EWFC 11424 May 2024
MacDonald J. Costs judgment following hearing in contentious case involving costs amounting to 23% of the assets.
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
- Add-Backs
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DH v RH (No 3) (Final Hearing) [2024] EWFC 7918 April 2024
MacDonald J. Final hearing in contentious case involving high legal costs and allegations of wanton dissipation.
- Cases
- Costs
- Add-Backs
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RN v TT [2024] EWFC 264 (B)14 June 2024
HHJ Hess. W (51) and H (49) cohabited in a flat in W’s sole name from late 2003 and married in 2004. W was a GP. H was a former painter and decorator.
- Cases
- Pensions on Divorce
- Delay
- Needs
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A v R [2024] EWFC 218 (B)5 August 2024
This judgment by DJ Dodsworth examines the legal principles relevant to raising conduct arguments in financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Domestic Abuse
- Conduct
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RM v WP [2024] EWFC 191 (B)28 June 2024
HHJ Hess considers when a property becomes the family home and therefore matrimonialised, and whether, once matrimonialised, it can become un-matrimonialised, and makes use of the Galbraith Tables while doing some heavy lifting to get the case to a practical, workable conclusion without further delay.
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Matrimonialisation
- Galbraith Tables
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Rotenberg v Rotenberg & Ors [2024] EWFC 18515 July 2024
Peel J accepts the existence of the Thwaite jurisdiction. Where the landscape on the ground was very different from that which was envisaged at the time of the order an executory order could be reframed under the Thwaite jurisdiction. The jurisdiction should be used sparingly.
- Cases
- 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
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VS v OP (Litigation Misconduct, Quasi-Inquisitorial Approach and Inferences) [2024] EWFC 190 (B)18 July 2024
Recorder Chandler KC’s final order was 67% to H and 33% to W, the non-compliant party, and an SPP order in W’s favour even though she did not attend, had not made full disclosure and adverse inferences had been made.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Costs
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Simon v (1) Simon (2) Integro Funding Limited (‘Level’) [2024] EWFC 1602 July 2024
Peel J. The last instalment in the *Simon v Simon & Level* family court litigation. Level’s civil claim is yet to be determined. Peel J found that the family court cannot make a distributive order upon application of an intervenor to require one party to pay the other party such sum as the third-party intervenor says it is entitled to.
- Cases
- Litigation Funding
- Joinder of Third Parties
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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Gudmundsson v Lin [2024] EWHC 1576 (Fam)21 June 2024
Peel J does his best to put into practice the intention of the original financial remedies order, despite H depriving W of 50% of the FMH by not informing the court that there was a bankruptcy order.
- Cases
- Bankruptcy
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Brown v Brown [2024] EWFC 181 (B)26 April 2024
DJ Dodsworth. A useful insight to a district judge level approach to contempt proceedings in financial remedies. H’s failure to file a Form E and CETV for pension.
- Cases
- Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
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