PM v RM [2025] EWFC 1120 January 2025

Mr Justin Warshaw KC sitting as a Deputy High Court judge. Application for maintenance pending suit, a legal services payment order and an injunction in a high value financial remedy case.

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Katie Stephens

MCA 1973, s 10(2)–(4): a New Lease of Life?

Before 6 April 2022, this section was rarely encountered in practice. Its purpose, as its headnote indicates, is to offer special protection for respondents. It was not a common feature of the family law landscape simply because its use was restricted to…

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• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property

• David Salter

!15/07/2022 15:13

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…

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• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Jemma Pollock
• Rebecca Fisher
• Pieter Boodt

!06/07/2022 07:07

SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 710 January 2025

Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings.

• Cases

• Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Katie Stephens

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

The Husband is 70. The Wife is 51. They have a 9-year-old daughter. They cohabited from February 2003 and in early 2012 separated due to the wife’s affair. In August 2012 – c.9 months later – they reunited. They married on 8 October 2012. The wife applied for divorce in May 2023. They therefore had nearly 20 years together, albeit not seamless cohabitation.

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• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Matrimonialisation
• Needs

• Jessica Reid

!29/01/2025 09:27