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Pre-Nuptial Agreement Drafting: Is the Profession Earning ‘an Honest Shilling’?
IntroductionIn the same year when the Law Commission published its report Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements and recommended that there be ‘statutory confirmation of the contractual validity of marital agreements’ (1.32), Coleridge J, in his addre…
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J v H [2022] EWFC 1339 November 2022
Peel J. H’s application for a freezing injunction. Reference to Mostyn J’s guidance from UL v BK and the importance of compliance with the pre-requisites set out in that case.H’s initial application was essentially without notice as short, informal notice…
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Someone! Do Something About Costs! The Single Lawyer Solution
In an appendix to his judgment in the ruinous case of KSO v MJO & Ors [2008] EWHC 3031 (Fam), in which the parties managed to expend all but about 28% of the net assets in costs, Munby J returned us to Dickens’ excoriating passage in Bleak H…
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Family Law – Not the Poor Relation
A paper delivered (remotely from France) by Hon Mr Justice Mostyn to the 19th National Family Law Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, on Tuesday 16 August 2022.
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Security for Costs in Family Proceedings
In MG v AR [2021] EWHC 3063 (Fam), Mostyn J made an order providing security for costs. Such orders are more frequently made in civil proceedings, where ‘costs follow the event’ and costs orders are made in favour of the successful party. An a…
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- Security for costs
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W v H (Financial Remedies: Pensions) [2021] EWFC 6314 September 2021
Recorder Salter.Modest assets. Case involved pensions, third-party property, excessive litigation costs and jurisdiction of the court to make an order for child maintenance where the care of a child was shared equally between the parties, and thus there w…
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Costs Orders and Childrens’ Cases
Case law establishes that unreasonableness opens the door to the making of a costs order in a children’s case, though the court will exercise a broad discretion.
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G v W [2022] EWHC 101 (Fam)11 May 2022
Sir Jonathan Cohen.An appeal in Schedule 1 proceedings following Re A (Schedule 1, Overspend, Costs Clawback) [2022] EWFC 21. Permission was granted to M to appeal the decision to dismiss her claim for additional payments for a nanny, and additio…
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- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 4617 May 2022
Peel J.Costs judgment following outcome of acrimonious and expensive financial remedy proceedings (summary here. W’s award included what H had paid already towards her legal costs (£400k) plus sufficient to discharge her outstanding legal costs (£237,000)…
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Goddard-Watts v Goddard Watts [2022] EWHC 711 (Fam)3 February 2022
Sir Jonathan Cohen.Second rehearing of W’s application for financial remedy orders, two previous orders having been set aside due to H’s non-disclosure. W’s application based on H’s knowledge at the time of the (second) judgment that he was about to recei…
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