Stephanie Coker
Published: 18/01/2022 14:51
Stephanie Coker is a barrister at FOURTEEN. She specialises in financial remedies following the breakdown of a relationship (including TOLATA matters), complex private children matters and international family law. Outside of practice, she was awarded a PhD and has acted as an Associate Lecturer where her teaching responsibilities spanned across family law, land law and foundations of property.
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CA v UK [2025] EWFC 117 (B)10 January 2025
HHJ Watkins. A substantive application by the father for a child maintenance order under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 (‘Schedule 1’); [12]. Within the application, the main issue concerned the most suitable jurisdiction for child maintenance dispute resolution. There were two jurisdictions involved in the forum conveniens dispute namely England and Wales and California.
- Cases
- Forum Conveniens
- Jurisdiction
- Child Maintenance
- Variation
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Forum Disputes
- Enforcement
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VTY v GDB [2025] EWFC 110 (B)24 April 2025
Recorder Taylor. Final hearing in a financial remedy application which concerned issues of non-disclosure and allegations of asset concealment in different countries. The matter also involved foreign litigation which appeared to undermine the existing proceedings in this jurisdiction. The parties married in 1999 and have two adult children and one aged 16. The family structure was a traditional one with H being the breadwinner and W the homemaker.
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Non-Disclosure
- Chattels
- Adverse Inferences
- School Fees
- Fraud
- Costs
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Debts
- Foreign Judgments
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GH v IH [2025] EWFC 120 (B)10 April 2025
District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing on enforcement and variation of 2012 financial remedy order. The primary issue to be determined was the enforcement and variation of a joint lives periodical payments order made in 2012.
- Cases
- Periodical Payments
- Variation
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Needs
- Enforcement
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Re CB (Financial Remedies: Antisuit Injunction) [2025] EWHC 427 (Fam)25 February 2025
HHJ Moradifar. Application by the husband for an anti-suit injunction to prevent the wife from pursuing, participating or otherwise continuing any applications for periodical payments for the children of the family or any other applications relating to their marriage in the courts of India.
- Cases
- Injunctions
- Habitual Residence
- Forum Conveniens
- Jurisdiction
- Child Maintenance
- Periodical Payments
- Anti-Suit Injunctions
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RI v NG [2025] EWFC 9 (B)7 January 2025
DJ Ashworth. The parties agreed to marry in February 2024 and the wedding was scheduled to take place on 15 May 2024, but was later called off on 30 April 2024. It was the applicant’s case that the respondent had been removing various items of jewellery not yet gifted to her from his property without his knowledge or consent.
- Cases
- Chattels
- Engagement
- Married Women's Property Act 1982
- Return of Items
- Separation
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MB v CD [2024] EWHC 751 (Fam)2 April 2024
Judd J. This case concerned an application by the mother for an LSPO in respect of both financial remedy and Children Act 1989 proceedings.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Needs
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EC v JC [2024] EWFC 175 (B)13 June 2024
DJ Hatvany. Final financial remedies hearing in a where the assets were modest. The parties were married for 11 years and had twin boys aged 9. An unfortunate feature of this case was that both parties had incurred large costs, which would make clearing their debt on both sides and enabling both parties to rehouse in a three-to-four-bedroom properties close to the boy’s school problematic.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Litigation Funding
- Costs
- Debts
- Modest Asset Cases
- Needs
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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
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Loh v Loh-Gronager [2024] EWFC 241 (Fam)29 July 2024
Cusworth J. A preliminary issue hearing where the substantive question was how the chattels fell to be characterised for the purposes of the prenuptial agreement, and consequently the respective entitlements of the parties in those items following their divorce.
- Cases
- Chattels
- Agreements
- Contributions
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FC v WC [2024] EWFC 29121 October 2024
HHJ Vincent sitting as a s 9 Deputy High Court Judge. The parties entered a French form of civil partnership when living in France. After returning to live in England in 2022, they were informed that their dissolution was not capable of recognition under s 235(1) CPA 2004 as at the commencement of their dissolution neither party to the dissolution was a French national and was not resident or domiciled in France.
- Cases
- Experts
- Civil Partnerships
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