Gwynfor Evans
Published: 10/05/2022 22:34
Gwynfor is a barrister at The 36 Group and a member of both the Chancery Bar Association and the Family Law Bar Association. He specialises in financial remedies (MCA 1973 and CA 1989 Sch 1), trusts of land, proprietary estoppel, probate / inheritance disputes, and presumption of death claims.
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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
!29/11/2024 06:00
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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
!13/03/2024 07:00
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Non-disclosure, Occupation Orders and Transfers of Tenancy
When a couple separates, either party may be able to apply for one or both of two powerful property-focused remedies. The first is an occupation order.
- Journal
- Non-Disclosure
- Transfer of Tenancy
- Occupation Orders
!21/11/2023 07:00
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Oil on Troubled Waters
Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 is another dispute in the seemingly never-ending conveyor-belt of cases about real ownership of a home. The property – Picnic House – (the litigation being anything but a picnic) was upon its acquisition i…
- Blog
- TOLATA
- Property
- Land
- Trusts
!05/01/2023 23:12
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Zooming In: Video Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction
This blog post is to inform (or maybe to remind) practitioners of the steps that must be taken if it is proposed that oral evidence be provided from a foreign country by video-link, and of the various matters that fall to be considered.
- Blog
- Zoom
- Evidence
!15/09/2022 15:39
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Schedule 1 Remedies for the Older Child
HHJ Hess recently handed down a helpful decision as to jurisdiction under Schedule 1 for an adult child in J & K v L (Schedule 1: Older Children) [2021] EWFC B104. While this decision is non-binding, the judgment offers an exceptionally lucid and helpful analysis of existing case law.
- Journal
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
!06/07/2022 07:08
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The ES2 – Amendments
The new asset schedule in the form of the ES2 Excel spreadsheet has helped focus practitioners’ minds, and save time at court, since its introduction in January 2022. However, there have been some minor glitches which could benefit from the odd tweak. Wit…
- Blog
- Asset Schedules
!11/05/2022 09:00