Conduct and Its Consequences: Goddard-Watts and TK v LK

In ‘Is It Time to Consign the “Gasp” Factor to the History Books?’, Olivia Piercy and Anita Mehta considered whether three decisions might herald a significant change in the courts’ approach to domestic abuse, including economic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour, as ‘conduct’ that it would be ‘inequitable to disregard’. If there is a nascent consensus that it is time for a change in approach, that view may not be universally held.

• Blog

• Conduct

• Andrew Day

!15/04/2024 21:08

TK v LK [2024] EWFC 712 April 2024

Enormously helpful review of Sch 1 authorities re (i) the jurisdiction to make a Schedule 1 award after a clean break in divorce proceedings, (ii) the relevance of parental conduct in Schedule 1 proceedings, (iii) dependence and the reversion of capital and (iv) costs.

• Cases

• Conduct
• Child Maintenance
• Case Management
• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
• Costs

• Elizabeth Bowden

D v D [2024] EWFC 7612 March 2024

HHJ Booth, sitting as a judge of the High Court: 25:75 division in favour of H following breakdown of second marriage and H’s substantial assets. Court considered W’s needs should be generously interpreted to overcome lack of SJE evidence as to W’s ill health. Needs would include W’s outstanding costs as summarily assessed by the court.

• Cases

• Interest
• Costs
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Experts
• Housing Need
• Duxbury Capitalisation
• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property

• Liam Kelly

Multiplied Propagation

Between 30 September 2023 and 1 April 2024, 24 financial remedy judgments which were not mainly about the maintenance of children (and therefore not protected by s 12 of the Administration of Justice Act 1960) were placed on Bailii. None of these was governed by the Financial Remedy Pilot, but only one was published without anonymisation.

• Blog

• Transparency

• Sir Nicholas Mostyn

!08/04/2024 10:51

A Mother v A Father (Re Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989) [2024] EWFC 6319 February 2024

HHJ Vincent. Schedule 1 matter determined in light of the child’s needs and the strict remit of Schedule 1, notwithstanding the significant disparity between the parents’ respective economic positions and standards of living.

• Cases

• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
• Housing Need
• School Fees
• Child Support
• Standard Of Living

• Mahnoor Javed