DF v YB [2025] EWFC 46 (B)14 February 2025

Recorder Nicholas Allen KC. Judgment following four-day final hearing, in which the parties agreed that it was a sharing case and that the net capital assets should be divided equally. The dispute centred around issues of computation, including tax issues and add-back vs Wells sharing.

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• Add-Backs

• Rebekah Batt

Vince v Vince [2024] EWFC 38920 December 2024

Cusworth J. A long marriage with substantial wealth, held mostly in H’s green energy business. Questions of how to treat political donations; attributing value to pre- and post-marital business efforts; and discounting the value of a business already sold.

• Cases

• Companies
• Valuations
• Add-Backs

• Beth Payne

AF v GF [2024] EWHC 3478 (Fam)25 November 2024

Mr Geoffrey Kingscote KC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Useful analysis of business matrimonialisation and quantification of assets, including the valuation of pre-marital business interests. The judgment clearly covers the two-stage exercise in Charman v Charman [2007] EWCA Civ 503 to add-back jurisprudence, the fragility of company valuations, matrimonialisation of pre-marital assets, and share transfers.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Company Valuations
• Add-Backs

• Neive Augustin

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.

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• Conduct
• Add-Backs

• Olivia Currie

DH v RH (No 4) (Costs) [2024] EWFC 11424 May 2024

MacDonald J. Costs judgment following hearing in contentious case involving costs amounting to 23% of the assets.

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• Conduct
• Costs
• Add-Backs

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

DH v RH (No 3) (Final Hearing) [2024] EWFC 7918 April 2024

MacDonald J. Final hearing in contentious case involving high legal costs and allegations of wanton dissipation.

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• Costs
• Add-Backs

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

When Is an Add-Back Not an Add-Back?

So-called ‘small money’ cases have historically been rarely published. However, the President’s Confidence and Confidentiality: Transparency in the Family Courts Report of 29 October 2021 and the subsequent reports of the TIG Anonymisation & Publication and Financial Remedies sub-groups (amongst others) have led to a welcome increase in such judgments. JN v GN [2023] EWFC 244 is one such decision and a good example of justice ‘at the coal face’.

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• Stephanie Coker

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O v O [2023] EWFC 1611 October 2023

Recorder Laura Moys. Non-matrimonial assets, wanton dissipation, maintenance, plus interesting point re school fees trust.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Conduct
• Efficient Conduct
• Add-Backs

• Sophie Cullis

Seales v Seales (Ancillary Relief: Murder and Coercive Control as Conduct) [2023] NIMaster 629 August 2023

Ancillary relief application in which the W was seeking to run a ‘conduct case’ based, in part, on the H’s conviction for murder.

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• Conduct
• Costs
• Add-Backs

• Rebekah Batt

Tsvetkov v Khayrova [2023] EWFC 130 and [2023] EWFC 131 (costs)4 August 2023

Peel J. Final Hearing of H’s Financial Remedy application.

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• Publicity and Confidentiality
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• Tax
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• Charlotte Lanning