Published: 06/05/2022 11:03
Siân Smith is a barrister at 42 Bedford Row, practising in financial remedy and children work. She chairs the FLBA’s Advocacy Working Group and is one of a small number of Facilitators qualified to deliver the new Advocacy and the Vulnerable training. She has particular expertise in representing and cross-examining vulnerable parties. For tweets on family law: @SianS_famlaw
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DDJ Rose. Final hearing in modest asset case. Court making findings on the validity of H’s purported loans/gifts to the parties’ children. Consideration of the Kimber factors concerning point of cohabitation.
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.
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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?
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As 2024 comes to an end the “Year in Review” brings all the FRJ blogs from the year together in one place for a ‘real time’ review of what was important, when, and why over the last 12 months.
!17/12/2024 09:30
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.
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