Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 56723 May 2024

Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Sharing
• Gifts
• Matrimonialisation
• Tax
• Autonomy
• Trusts

• Sophia Paraskeva

The Duty of Disclosure: as Important Now as Ever

The duty of disclosure and its proactive nature runs through financial remedy proceedings like letters through a stick of seaside rock. It appears on the face of the Form E. It has been set out in numerous cases.

• Blog

• Disclosure

• Shannon Knight

!19/12/2024 11:39

B v B [2024] EWFC 311 (B)13 August 2024

District Judge Dinan-Hayward significantly departed from equality in the wife’s favour, where the applicant husband did not attend the final hearing, failed to engage with his own application and failed to undertake proper disclosure.

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Non-Compliance

• Elizabeth Bowden

Child Maintenance and Mortgage Payments – New Guidance: LM v SSWP & NM [2024] UKUT 259 (AAC)

What happens if the Child Maintenance Service has determined that a non-resident parent is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care, but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children? Does it matter if the property is jointly owned by NRP and PWC? Will those mortgage payments reduce the amount of child maintenance?

• Blog

• Mortgages
• Child Maintenance

• Gwynfor Evans

!29/11/2024 06:00

Delaying a Divorce Because of Financial Prejudice: The New No-fault Law and Practice

There can be real loss and prejudice in some divorce cases if the final divorce order, previously the decree absolute, is granted before the final financial settlement and its implementation in circumstances when the paying party then dies.

• Blog
• Journal

• divorce

• Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb

!07/10/2024 22:10