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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.
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- Companies
- Valuations
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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.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Company Valuations
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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
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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
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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
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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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O v O [2023] EWFC 1611 October 2023
Recorder Laura Moys. Non-matrimonial assets, wanton dissipation, maintenance, plus interesting point re school fees trust.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Conduct
- Efficient Conduct
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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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- Costs
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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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- Chattels
- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Conduct
- Costs
- Tax
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DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 610 January 2023
HHJ Madeleine Reardon. Finding of economic abuse and consideration of whether it met the level of s 25 conduct.Parties aged 49 (W) and 59 (H), married 1994, separated 2018, children adults. Marriage void for W’s bigamy, but with no findings made and…
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- Economic Abuse
- Conduct
- Costs
- Needs
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