VTY v GDB [2025] EWFC 110 (B)24 April 2025

Recorder Taylor. Final hearing in a financial remedy application which concerned issues of non-disclosure and allegations of asset concealment in different countries. The matter also involved foreign litigation which appeared to undermine the existing proceedings in this jurisdiction. The parties married in 1999 and have two adult children and one aged 16. The family structure was a traditional one with H being the breadwinner and W the homemaker.

• Cases

• Foreign Assets
• Non-Disclosure
• Chattels
• Adverse Inferences
• School Fees
• Fraud
• Costs
• Duxbury Capitalisation
• Debts
• Foreign Judgments

• Stephanie Coker

Chattels: What If They Are Not to Be Divided by Agreement?

Chattels are often in dispute between parties to financial remedy proceedings. However their division is something their lawyers are very happy not to get involved with. Little is more likely to lead to a sigh of relief than the words ‘Chattels – to be divided by agreement’.

• Blog

• Chattels

• Nicholas Allen KC

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RI v NG [2025] EWFC 9 (B)7 January 2025

DJ Ashworth. The parties agreed to marry in February 2024 and the wedding was scheduled to take place on 15 May 2024, but was later called off on 30 April 2024. It was the applicant’s case that the respondent had been removing various items of jewellery not yet gifted to her from his property without his knowledge or consent.

• Cases

• Chattels
• Engagement
• Married Women's Property Act 1982
• Return of Items
• Separation

• Stephanie Coker

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

• Stephanie Coker

KFK v DQD [2024] EWFC 78 (B)3 April 2024

Recorder Rhys Taylor. Modest asset needs case. Issues in the case: add-back, adverse inference, beneficial interests, dishonesty, family loans and resources, nature of business assets (income vs capital resource), non-disclosure, presumption of advancement, treatment of debts, and witness credibility.

• Cases

• Chattels
• Disclosure
• Family Procedure Rules
• Costs

• Elizabeth Bowden

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

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

• Cases

• Chattels
• Publicity and Confidentiality
• Conduct
• Costs
• Tax
• Add-Backs

• Charlotte Lanning

AFW v RFH [2023] EWFC 11920 July 2023

Recorder Laura Moys. Enforcement of order for sale and PSO.

• Cases

• Chattels
• Sale of Property
• Anonymity and Transparency
• Variation of an Order
• Delay
• Costs
• Variation Applications
• Valuations
• Enforcement
• Non-Compliance

• Helen Moizer

Ralph v Given [2022] EWHC 2395 (KB)23 September 2022

Freedman J. Claimant’s application for summary judgment in relation to application to deliver up an Aston Martin DBX and a Range Rover Sport or damages for conversion. C argued these were gifts. The claimant (C) and defendant (D) were engaged, but separat…

• Cases

• Chattels
• Gifts
• Cohabitation
• Summary Judgment

• Krishma Patel