HKW v CRH [2024] EWFC 358 (B)4 December 2024

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.

• Cases

• Conduct
• Add-Backs

• Olivia Currie

The Duty of Disclosure: as Important Now as Ever

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.

• Blog

• Disclosure

• Shannon Knight

!19/12/2024 11:39

B v B [2024] EWFC 311 (B)13 August 2024

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.

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Non-Compliance

• Elizabeth Bowden

The Year in Review

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.

• Blog

!17/12/2024 09:30

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

• Stephanie Coker