Published: 17/07/2023 14:48
District Judge Sheren Guirguis sits at Liverpool Civil and Family Court, sitting exclusively on family cases, including complex financial remedy cases. As a barrister, her practice was predominately family finance work.
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DJ Hatvany. Final financial remedies hearing in a where the assets were modest. The parties were married for 11 years and had twin boys aged 9. An unfortunate feature of this case was that both parties had incurred large costs, which would make clearing their debt on both sides and enabling both parties to rehouse in a three-to-four-bedroom properties close to the boy’s school problematic.
DJ Ashworth. Final financial remedy hearing involving the weight to be attached to a pre-nuptial agreement, non-matrimonial and matrimonial property, and the computation of assets.
DJ Phillips. Final hearing where the issues concerned whether a post-nuptial agreement was binding on the parties and fair. The parties were married for 9 years and had one child, 10, and, W’s older child, 19, who was treated as a child of the family, having been 6 years when the parties met. Four days after the marriage, the parties signed a PNA.
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