Cases
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Gallagher v Gallagher (No.2) (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC 53
Mostyn J.Substantive financial remedies decision accompanying Gallagher v Gallagher (No.1) (Reporting Restrictions) [2022] EWFC 52. Assets £34.5m including value of H’s 50% shareholding in a construction company. The value of the company was established u…
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Valuations
!13/06/2022 09:00
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Gallagher v Gallagher (No.1) (Reporting Restrictions) [2022] EWFC 52
Mostyn J.Application for a reporting restriction order ('RRO'), alternatively an anonymity order. Reference to proceedings 'in private' in FPR 27.10 and 27.11 does not impose secrecy as to the facts of the case. Rather, the correct interpretation of these…
- Cases
- Reporting Restriction Order
- Publicity and Confidentiality
!13/06/2022 09:00
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Villiers v Villiers [2022] EWCA Civ 772
Moylan LJ, Coulson LJ and Arnold LJ.Appeal concerning an order by Mostyn J dismissing W’s application under s 27 of MCA 1973. Case provides useful content on the interpretation and application of s 27. It was concluded that W’s application had been wrongl…
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Disclosure
- Maintenance
!10/06/2022 09:00
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A v B [2022] EWFC 149
HHJ Reardon. W’s application under s 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 for declaration that no valid marriage subsisted between the parties because at the time of the purported wedding, conducted by a priest of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Sa…
- Cases
- Nullity
- Validity of marriage
!25/05/2022 09:00
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XZ v YZ [2022] EWFC 49
Mostyn J.H’s application for a reporting restriction order (RRO) against background of Mostyn J’s decision in Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2022] EWFC 30 that a financial remedy judgment (which is not mainly about child maintenance) may be fully repor…
- Cases
- Publicity and Confidentiality
!20/05/2022 18:11
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D v D (Financial Remedy Case) [2020] EWFC B24
DJ John Smart.Rare reported modest asset case. Identification of needs in a marriage that, with prior cohab, had lasted only 10 months. Parties aged 51 and 49. Modest assets, almost all brought into the marriage by H, including the FMH in H’s sole name an…
- Cases
- Needs
- Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
- Duration of the Marriage
- Conduct
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
!20/05/2022 09:00
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SC v TC [2022] EWFC 67
HHJ Hess.Financial remedies case involving postnuptial agreement, in which H had, in the face of a foreshortened life expectancy caused by Parkinson’s disease, voluntarily relinquished his clear entitlement both to sharing and to a needs-based award…
- Cases
- Impaired Life Expectancy
- Agreements
!20/05/2022 09:00
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ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 128
Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'. In 2010, the parties m…
- Cases
- Trusts
- Tax
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Needs
- Add-Backs
!19/05/2022 09:00
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 46
Peel J.Costs judgment following outcome of acrimonious and expensive financial remedy proceedings (summary here. W’s award included what H had paid already towards her legal costs (£400k) plus sufficient to discharge her outstanding legal costs (£237,000)…
- Cases
- Conduct
- Costs
!17/05/2022 09:00
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VSN v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and JN [2022] UKUT 138 (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
Upper Tribunal Judge Poynter.This was an application for permission to appeal, persuasive but not binding, and published because it dealt with a novel situation: was a mirror order a “maintenance order” within the meaning of the Child Support…
- Cases
- Mirror Orders
- International Enforcement
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Child Maintenance
- Child Support
!17/05/2022 09:00
