ED v OF [2024] EWFC 2979 September 2024

Cusworth J. Financial remedy proceedings relating to the valuation and division of a high-value music catalogue as a key matrimonial asset.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Companies
• Tax
• Valuations

• Ella Fogg

LMZ v AMZ [2024] EWFC 2812 February 2024

Moor J. A striking age difference, 48 years between the parties, gives rise to a strong needs-based claim.

• Cases

• Foreign Assets
• Life Expectancy
• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Housing Need
• Companies
• Needs
• Valuations

• Kieran Ball

Businesses in Financial Remedy Claims

'Business' is a term that covers a multitude of different structures. The most common are limited companies (whether public or private), partnerships and sole traders. The courts will treat different businesses in different ways.

• Journal

• Sharing Principle
• Business
• Companies
• Business Assets
• Financial Remedies
• Expert Evidence
• Case Management
• Business Valuation
• Valuations

• Duncan Brooks KC

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AP v BP & Ors (financial remedies – appeal – disclosure – privilege) [2023] EWFC 1699 March 2023

On the husband's discovery of the wife's agreement with the intervenors he sought disclosure of the first agreement.

• Cases

• Privilege
• Disclosure
• Setting Aside Transactions
• Companies

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

AP v BP & Ors (financial remedies & s 37 application to set aside disposition) [2023] EWFC 17029 August 2023

HHJ Vincent. Application by H to set aside dispositions by W of shares to intervenors.

• Cases

• Setting Aside Transactions
• Companies
• Dispositions
• Intervenors

• Sophia Paraskeva

McLean v Mclean & Ors [2023] EWHC 1735 (Fam)10 July 2023

Roberts J. An appeal of a final order by the H and five companies of which the H was the sole or majority shareholder following a final hearing conducted in their absence.

• Cases

• Adverse Inferences
• Disclosure
• Companies
• Applications To Adjourn
• Appeals
• Joinder of Third Parties

• Rebekah Batt

CG v SG [2023] EWHC 942 (Fam)10 March 2023

HHJ Hess. A final hearing in financial remedy proceedings heard over six days.Both parties were in their sixties and had a long marriage of 30 years. The children were all adult and independent. During the marriage, the W, a qualified nurse, had taken on…

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Experts
• Companies
• Costs
• Valuations

• Rebekah Batt

Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2023] EWFC 504 April 2023

Sir Jonathan Cohen. The latest and, one hopes, final episode in a legal saga involving financial remedy, jurisdiction and children litigation spaning 60 hearings between Russia and England, in which H alone had sought counsel and legal advice from 7 firms…

• Cases

• Conduct
• Companies
• Costs
• Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
• Professional Ethics
• Legal Services Payment Orders

• Calum Smith

(1) Dixon (2) Dixon v The Crown Estate Commissioners [2022] EWHC 325622 December 2022

Judge Hodge KC. The claimants sought vesting orders in respect of two properties, following the striking off and dissolution of the company (in which the claimants had previously been shareholders) which was the registered proprietor. The Crown disclaimed…

• Cases

• Companies
• Proprietary Estoppel
• Trusts

• Rebekah Batt

Clarke v Clarke [2022] EWHC 2698 (Fam)28 October 2022

Mostyn J. Appeal by W against the judgment and order of HHJ Farqhuar on three grounds. One, whether the order should provide for W to receive a minimum sum from the net proceeds of sale of the FMH. This was not strongly advanced by W and became irrelevant…

• Cases

• Companies
• Appeals
• Valuations

• Stephanie Coker