Tech Corner: Twenty Simple Excel Tips for Financial Remedy Practitioners

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program for presenting formatted numbers and for performing calculations on them. It also offers basic text-editing for labelling and for explaining any figures and calculations.

• Journal

• Tech Corner

• Gwynfor Evans

!13/03/2024 07:00

Book Review: Cohabitation and Trusts of Land

Graeme Fraser reviews the fourth edition of Cohabitation and Trusts of Land, by Elizabeth Darlington and Laura Heaton.

• Journal

• Cohabitation
• Book Review

• Graeme Fraser

!13/03/2024 07:00

Historical Business Valuations and the Goldilocks Principle: Not Too Much or Too Little but Just the Right Amount of Hindsight

This article compares the attitude taken to the use of hindsight in the commercial courts with that in the family courts.

• Journal

• Business Valuation

• Roger Isaacs

!13/03/2024 07:00

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2024)

Summaries of recent cases including Simon v Simon & Integro Funding Limited [2023] EWCA Civ 1048, Ditchfield v Ditchfield (Appeal) [2023] EWHC 2303 (Fam), Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2023] EWCA Civ 1065 and Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2023] EWFC 158.

• Journal

• Liam Kelly

!13/03/2024 07:00

Qualified Legal Representatives in Financial Remedy Proceedings

The recent decision in AXA v BYB (QLR Financial Remedies) [2023] EWFC 251 (B) is the first time in which a qualified legal representative was appointed and used in a financial remedies final hearing at the Central Family Court.

• Journal

• Qualified Legal Representative

• Adrian Barnett-Thoung-Holland
• Alice Thornton

!13/03/2024 07:00

DR Corner: Fair Shares – Mediation Under the Microscope

1 November 2023 saw the launch of the Fair Shares report, which presents the results of the first fully representative study of the arrangements families make on separation and divorce.

• Journal

• Mediation
• DR Corner

• Joanne Edwards
• Polly Calver

!13/03/2024 07:00

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-September 2023 to mid-January 2024)

The judgments published within the autumn period fall sharply at each end of the spectrum of wealth. A number of cases involving significant assets have involved arguments around post-separation accrual.

• Journal

• Post-Separation Accrual

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

!13/03/2024 07:00

Money Corner: Financial Planning for Non-UK Resident Beneficiaries of Pension Shares

Once a pension sharing order is obtained from the courts in England and Wales, the division of pension assets between UK residents is usually straightforward. For non-UK resident beneficiaries, a myriad of challenges emerges, ranging from accessibility and tax considerations to investment decisions and currency risks.

• Journal

• Pensions on Divorce
• Money Corner

• Philip Teague

!13/03/2024 07:00

Chair's Column (Spring 2024)

The Financial Remedies Journal now enters its third year, and this edition is fizzing with interesting comments and ideas.

• Journal

• HHJ Edward Hess | Chair of the Editorial Board

!13/03/2024 07:00

Non-matrimonial Assets – The New ‘Conduct’?

In the recent decision of RN v DA [2023] EWFC 255, the court was faced with an application by a wife to rescind a decree nisi that had been pronounced in 2012. The husband, conversely, had applied for the decree to be made absolute.

• Journal

• Decree Nisi/Decree Final
• Rescission of Divorce Decree

• Laura Moys

!13/03/2024 07:00