When It’s Good, It’s Very Good… The ES2, Aged Three; a Pedant’s Perspective

On 11 January 2025, the pro forma schedule of assets known to all as the ES2 turned three years old. Just like the little girl (with the little curl, right in the middle of her forehead) of nursery rhyme fame, who one imagines may be of a similar age, when it’s good, it’s very good, and when it’s bad, it’s horrid.

• Blog

• Asset Schedules

• Andrew Day

!11/04/2025 07:00

Housing Particulars: Mind the Gap

The Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court Below High Court Judge Level (11 January 2022) requires that 14 days before the First Appointment each party should use their best endeavours ‘to file with the court and serve on the other party no more than three sets of property particulars showing what their case is likely to be on housing need for themself and the other party’.

• Blog

• Housing Need

• Nicholas Allen KC

!17/04/2025 07:00

Let’s Be Clear: The Transparency Reporting Pilot for Financial Remedy Proceedings

One of the most important considerations for anyone with significant wealth, or who has a public profile and who is getting divorced, is the subject of confidentiality and privacy. It is often a key factor of any such client who is considering where and how to get divorced, and it is something matrimonial solicitors have in mind in the first meeting they have with their client. Balanced against that is the push towards increasing transparency within our family justice system, the purpose of which being to promote accountability and public confidence in the same.

• Blog

• Transparency

• Sarah Jane Lenihan
• Laura Couves

!28/03/2025 07:00

Schedule 1 Property Structures

The main focus in cases under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 is often on how to meet the housing needs of a child; understandably so, as it is usually the largest cost. It can also be the starting point for settlement as the type of property and loca…

• Journal

• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Jemma Pollock
• Rebecca Fisher
• Pieter Boodt

!06/07/2022 07:07

X v Y [2025] EWHC 727 (Fam)11 March 2025

Trowell J. Wife’s unsuccessful appeal against the rejection of her Barrell application to reopen a final order in a needs case following the husband’s father’s death. Trowell J agreed with the trial judge that the husband’s inheritance prospects were uncertain, and the principle of finality ought to be favoured over re-opening the case.

• Cases

• Barrell Applications
• Appeals Out Of Time
• Appeals
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Jasmine Knapman