Agreements
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HW v WB (Financial Remedies; Treatment of Post-nuptial Agreement) [2024] EWFC 328 (B)5 July 2024
DJ Phillips. Final hearing where the issues concerned whether a post-nuptial agreement was binding on the parties and fair. The parties were married for 9 years and had one child, 10, and, W’s older child, 19, who was treated as a child of the family, having been 6 years when the parties met. Four days after the marriage, the parties signed a PNA.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Agreements
- Child Maintenance
- Needs
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Loh v Loh-Gronager [2024] EWFC 241 (Fam)29 July 2024
Cusworth J. A preliminary issue hearing where the substantive question was how the chattels fell to be characterised for the purposes of the prenuptial agreement, and consequently the respective entitlements of the parties in those items following their divorce.
- Cases
- Chattels
- Agreements
- Contributions
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Helliwell v Entwistle [2024] EWHC 740 (Fam)16 February 2024
Francis J. A ‘paradigm case’ of how not to conduct litigation in a short childless marriage.
- Cases
- Agreements
- Short Marriage
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HJB v WPB [2024] EWFC 18710 July 2024
HHJ Vincent. Preliminary hearing to determine whether parties should be held to a separation agreement. Agreement found to be ‘presumptively dispositive’. An agreement will not be unpicked merely because a business has thereafter performed well.
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Agreements
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BI v EN [2024] EWFC 200 (Fam)29 July 2024
Decision of Cusworth J concluding financial remedy proceedings between W and H. The principal issue concerned the extent to which the outcome of W’s application for financial remedies should be impacted by the ‘Contrat de Mariage’ (the elected séparation de biens property regime).
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Sharing Principle
- Agreements
- Compensation Principle
- Needs
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Nilsson & Anor v Cynberg [2024] EWHC 2164 (Ch)23 August 2024
James Pickering KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. A declaration of trust is conclusive unless varied by subsequent agreement or affected by proprietary estoppel. A ‘subsequent agreement’ is not limited to those compliant with the LP(MP)A 1989 but can include informally arising constructive trusts.
- Cases
- TLATA Applications
- Agreements
- Bankruptcy
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NM v PM [2024] EWFC 199 (B)18 July 2024
DDJ Nahal-Macdonald. Preliminary issues hearing in relation to interpretation of a clause in a prenuptial agreement.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Agreements
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AT v BT [2023] EWHC 3531 (Fam)6 November 2023
Final hearing in a financial remedy application in which issues included undue pressure reducing weight of PNA, compensation, and non-matrimonial assets.
- Cases
- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Agreements
- Experts
- Tax
- Compensation Principle
- Valuations
- Trusts
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AH v BH [2024] EWFC 1257 June 2024
Peel J final hearing judgment in high-net-worth FR case in which the parties had entered into a pre-nuptial agreement which purported to ‘severely limit W’s financial remedy claims in her own right and the financial needs of W and the children’.
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Agreements
- Needs
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BL v OR [2023] EWFC 229 (Fam)7 December 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen. Final hearing involving a prenuptial agreement in circumstances where W had transferred her property, which amounted to W parting with the bulk of her assets.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Agreements
- Duxbury Capitalisation
- Needs
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