Journal
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.
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!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
!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.
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- Mediation
- DR Corner
!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.
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- Post-Separation Accrual
!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.
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- Pensions on Divorce
- Money Corner
!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
!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.
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- Decree Nisi/Decree Final
- Rescission of Divorce Decree
!13/03/2024 07:00
Financial Remedy Proceedings Transparency Reporting Pilot: Launch date 29 January 2024
Those who have appeared in Children Act cases in Leeds, Cardiff or Carlisle in the last 12 months will have encountered the transparency pilot scheme established in those courts in January 2023. The essence of the Financial Remedies Court reporting pilot is the same.
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- Transparency
- Publicity and Confidentiality
!13/03/2024 07:00
Fair Shares and the Financial Reality of the ‘Everyday’ Divorce
The Fair Shares research study provides the first nationally representative picture of the financial arrangements made by divorcing couples in England and Wales.
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- divorce
!13/03/2024 07:00
Financial Dispute Revolution? The Family Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023
There was a time when an unwritten rule seemed to provide that a marriage could only be described as long once the parties had celebrated their china anniversary and entered a third decade together, but times change, and so eventually do some rules.
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- Family Procedure Rules
!26/01/2024 08:00