Cases
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Potanin v Potanina [2019] EWHC 2956 (Fam)8 November 2019
Cohen J. The first in the trio of Potanina v Potanin decisions.
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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BC v SC [2023] EWFC 307 (B)12 December 2023
DDJ Holmes-Milner. FR decision at DDJ level. Consideration of treatment of critical illness payout for H’s cancer.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Pensions on Divorce
- Impaired Life Expectancy
- Costs
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Williams v Williams [2024] EWHC 733 (Fam)10 April 2024
Sir Andrew McFarlane P. Erroneous application for a final order of divorce made by the solicitors for the applicant wife, in absence of the instruction or authority of their client.
- Cases
- Delay
- Decree Nisi/Decree Final
- Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)
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TI v LI [2024] EWFC 163 (B)21 June 2024
Recorder Allen KC. Recognition of Pakistani divorce.
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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AT v BT [2023] EWHC 3531 (Fam)6 November 2023
Final hearing in a financial remedy application in which issues included undue pressure reducing weight of PNA, compensation, and non-matrimonial assets.
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Agreements
- Experts
- Tax
- Compensation Principle
- Valuations
- Trusts
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V v W [2024] EWFC 11123 May 2024
Poole J. The issues for determination were whether this court had jurisdiction to hear dissolution proceedings in relation to a French pacte civil de solidarité, and, if so, is the forum conveniens for dissolution proceedings nevertheless in France?
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
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WJB v HJM [2024] EWFC 116 (B)15 February 2024
District Judge Ashworth. This was an application by W for a Hadkinson order preventing H from pursuing his application to vary an order for periodical payments made in 2017.
- Cases
- Hadkinson Orders
- Contempt of Court
- Periodical Payments
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Enforcement
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WXT v HMT (leave to claim financial relief following overseas divorce) [2024] EWFC 136 (B)7 June 2024
HHJ Vincent. The case concerned an application by W for leave to make a claim for financial relief following an overseas divorce under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984.
- Cases
- Part III
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
- Leave Application
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AH v BH [2024] EWFC 1257 June 2024
Peel J final hearing judgment in high-net-worth FR case in which the parties had entered into a pre-nuptial agreement which purported to ‘severely limit W’s financial remedy claims in her own right and the financial needs of W and the children’.
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Agreements
- Needs
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JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam)23 May 2024
Cobb J. The case concerned four applications by the mother for an LSPO to cover the costs of her legal representation in ongoing proceedings under Schedule 1 (where she sought financial provision for the six-year old child) and s 8 CA 1989.
- Cases
- Freezing Injunctions
- Land Registration Act 2002
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Legal Services Payment Orders