Costs
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Teasdale v Carter and Teasdale [2023] EWHC 490 (Fam)7 March 2023
Moor J. Appeal in farming estoppel case with astronomical costs far exceeding the value of the property in question.The first respondent, Ms Carter, was the elder daughter of the appellant mother and second respondent father. During the parents’ fin…
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- TOLATA
- Joinder of Third Parties
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SS v RS [2023] EWFC 32 (Fam)16 March 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen. Application by H, inter alia, for compensation relating to delay in W complying with an undertaking to use her best endeavours to procure the release of H from the mortgage on the family home following a financial remedy order in 2019.…
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- Undertakings
- Compensation Principle
- Striking Out Applications
- Domestic Abuse
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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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- Conduct
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- Economic Abuse
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HD v WB [2023] EWFC 213 January 2023
Peel J. Financial remedy proceedings concerning the circumstances surrounding a PNA and the weight, if any, to be attached to it. Realisable assets almost entirely in W’s name exceeded £43m. H sought for the PNA to be completely disregarded as it was ente…
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- Needs
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W v H (Contested Divorce) [2022] EWFC 1502 November 2022
HHJ Greensmith. H defended W’s petition for divorce. The parties were 45. H was a doctor and W a social worker. They married in Australia in 2014 and separated in 2017. They have three children.This was not H’s first round of contested divorce/financial r…
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- Defended Divorce
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WD v MH [2022] EWFC 16218 November 2022
Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. H was 66 and W 61. Short marriage.Within judicial separation proceedings (although neither party could confirm why such were preferred to divorce), the parties agreed (the 2008 Agreement), inter alia, the following:H to pay W a lu…
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- Agreements
- Delay
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A Wife v A Husband [2022] EWFC 1546 December 2022
HHJ Vincent. Consent order provided for W to receive lump sum in instalments for purpose of housing herself and the children, and spousal and child periodical payments. W relocated and sought accelerated receipt. Further consent order provided for this, b…
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- Cohabitation of Recipient of Spousal Maintenance
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Conduct
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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- Freezing Injunctions
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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