What to Do Where One Spouse Will Not Co-operate with a Court-Ordered Sale?

The recently reported case of WZ v HZ [2024] EWFC 407 (B) (1 May 2024) provides guidance on how to manage the common occurrence of one spouse holding out in the family home despite an order for sale.

• Blog

• Sale of Property

• Rory Collett

!06/02/2025 08:00

MacQueen v MacQueen [2024] EWFC 400 (B)9 February 2025

District Judge Ashby. Final hearing concerning an application for a final financial remedy order in proceedings concerning serious findings of non-disclosure.

• Cases

• Non-Disclosure
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Financial Remedies Court (FRC)

• Katie Stephens

HW v WB (Financial Remedies; Treatment of Post-nuptial Agreement) [2024] EWFC 328 (B)5 July 2024

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.

• Cases

• Housing Need
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Agreements
• Child Maintenance
• Needs

• Stephanie Coker

James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC, who has died aged 72, was a titan of the bar. In an increasingly specialised legal world, he had a uniquely broad practice for a family barrister: financial remedies, child abduction, divorce, crime, judicial review, medical disciplinary work and administrative law.

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• Obituaries

• Alexander Chandler KC

!24/01/2025 10:42

Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?

In Rossi v Rossi [2007] 1 FLR 790 Nicholas Mostyn QC adopted a formulaic approach in relation to ‘a post-separation bonus or other earned income’. He stated that ‘[a]lthough there is an element of arbitrariness’ he would not allow a post-separation bonus to be classed as non-matrimonial ‘unless it related to a period which commenced at least 12 months after the separation’.

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• Post-Separation Accrual

• Nicholas Allen KC

!05/02/2025 11:51