M v B [2025] EWFC 18225 June 2025

Sir Jonathan Cohen (sitting as a judge of the High Court). Financial remedy proceedings considering the court’s power to strike out applications under FPR 4.4, having regard to the effect of FPR 9.9A.

• Cases

• 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
• Executory Orders
• Striking Out Applications

• Monique Simone Fremder

Financial Remedy Reform – ‘Fairness’ – Do Divorcing Parties Get Any Say – Time for Some Soul Searching for Family Law Professionals

Ashley Murray considers the Law Commission’s 373-page scoping report on Financial Remedies on Divorce and Dissolution, which was published just before Christmas 2024.

• Blog

• Private FDR

• Ashley Murray

!30/06/2025 06:58

MNV v CNV [2025] EWFC 176 (B)19 June 2025

DDJ Bradshaw. Drastic change in personal circumstances results in add-back in small money case.

• Cases

• Liabilities
• Housing Need
• Small Money
• Mortgage Capacity
• Costs
• Soft Loans
• Needs
• Earning Capacity
• Add-Backs

• Abigail Clements-Bewley

The Approach of the Family Court to Musicians’ Proprietary Interests

In 2001 Bob Dylan wrote ‘I always said you’d be sorry and today could be the day, I might need a good lawyer, Could be your funeral, my trial’. The bard is often right. Where a financial remedy case involves a musician, it is likely that they will hold some form of proprietary interest in the music they have created. This can create a complex position in fact and law.

• Journal

• Musician Divorce Assets
• Divorce and Music Copyright
• Valuation of Music Assets in Divorce
• Financial Remedy Music Rights

• Dom Christophers
• Joshua Viney

!30/06/2025 06:00

‘You Want Me to Do What Now?’ – The Return-to-Work Question and the Quiet Cost of Executive Marriage

She hadn’t written a CV in 20 years. Hadn’t needed to. When her ex’s career took off, they moved every few years. She held everything else together while he earned the money. But ‘everything else’ was a lot. A job that never ended, never paid, and never came with recognition, until now, when it’s being questioned. Because now, as part of the divorce, she’s being asked to outline her ‘return-to-work plan’.

• Journal

• Economic Disparity
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• 5-Year Career Plan
• Return to Work

• Ceri Griffiths

!30/06/2025 06:00