Prenups Aren’t ‘Sign and Done’: Why Reviews Matter Just as Much as the Ring

Elizabeth Bowden is a big fan of prenuptial/pre-civil partnership agreements (‘prenups’) because, at the very least, both parties are forced to have really open and transparent conversations about money, finances, goals and aspirations. Anyone looking to make marriage/civil partnership vows should do this before they sign on the dotted line.

• Blog

• Pre-Nuptial Agreements

• Elizabeth Bowden

!28/05/2025 14:00

Re-multiplied Propagation

In this article Sir Nicholas Mostyn refers to those financial remedy cases heard in private to which s 12 Administration of Justice Act 1960 does not apply as mainstream financial remedy cases. As is well-known, s 12 imposes an automatic restriction on publishing the details of any financial remedy case which is mainly about child maintenance. The great majority of financial remedy cases are not protected by s 12.

• Journal

• Transparency
• Privacy
• Reporting

• Sir Nicholas Mostyn

!28/05/2025 10:00

Sham, Adverse Inferences and the Burden of Proof: Awolowo [2025] EWCA Civ 641

It’s often the financial remedy cases involving non-family barristers or judges which are the most interesting. There’s something about an outsider’s perspective which can illuminate legal principle and remind us that, per Mostyn J, ‘the Family Courts are not a desert island’.

• Blog

• Burden Of Proof
• Adverse Inferences
• Sham

• Alexander Chandler KC

!21/05/2025 14:00

NCDR Update – Are the Tides Turning for Failing to Mediate?

Looking back over the last 12 months, 29 April 2024 was an important day for financial remedy practitioners. This was the date the rules concerning NCDR changed. The changes make ignoring the NCDR options a costs hazard. It seemed inevitable that costs orders would follow.

• Blog

• Leah Thomas
• Rhian Jones

!20/05/2025 12:05

SM v BA (No 2: Maintenance Pending Suit) [2025] EWFC 2819 February 2025

Nicholas Allen KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application to increase maintenance pending suit (MPS) in ‘super-rich’ financial remedies case.

• Cases

• Interim Relief
• Maintenance Pending Suit
• Costs
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Abigail Clements-Bewley