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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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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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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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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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P v P (Treatment of costs in sharing cases) [2022] EWFC 15814 November 2022
DDJ David Hodson. The court published this discrete judgment to address several issues of legal costs in a wholly sharing claim. This was a case which ‘should never have got to Form A, let alone a final hearing’; W had incurred £130,000 in legal costs whe…
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YC v ZC [2022] EWFC 13717 October 2022
HHJ Hess. After over 30 years of marriage, the husband’s ('H') application for financial remedy. H was a 60-year-old businessman, described by the judge at [6] as ‘a driven character with … a tendency to … take personal and financial risks and live life ‘…
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ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 12819 May 2022
Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'. In 2010, the parties m…
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A v M [2021] EWFC 895 November 2021
Mostyn J.H worked in private equity and had set up two funds of his own, W was the beneficiary of valuable trust funds. Mostyn J set out a detailed method for dealing with H’s carried interest (in his view a hybrid resource, neither exclusively return on…
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P v Q (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC B9 (10 February 2022)10 February 2022
HHJ Hess. Financial remedy proceedings in which parties’ respective parents had provided them with funds to enhance their lifestyle, which court held to be soft loans rather than gifts. Discussion of importance of determining whether hard/soft; gives some…
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