TRNS v TRNK [2023] EWFC 13310 August 2023

Cohen J. W not held to PNA due to material non-disclosure by H in not updating disclosure which he knew/believed to be out of date.

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Agreements

• Isabella Thomas-Kelly

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

Ditchfield v Ditchfield [2023] EWHC 2303 (Fam)20 September 2023

Peel J. Appeal by H of a final financial remedy order where on a clean break basis the assets were divided 62/38 in favour of W.

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Loans
• Appeals
• Debts
• Needs

• Stephanie Coker

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

Susan Nancy Baker v Andrew Hartill Baker [2023] EWFC 13611 August 2023

Final hearing of W’s financial remedies claim, in which the main issue was whether H should be held to the terms of a separation agreement executed by the parties in New York in 2015.

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Conduct
• Separation Agreement
• Costs

• Sarah Hogarth

CC v LC [2023] EWFC 5210 March 2023

HHJ Wildblood KC. Final hearing in a needs case in which the assets available were limited to a three bedroom property, which housed the W and the three minor children of the marriage. In addition, each party held pensions of a similar value.The H had ref…

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Conduct
• Costs
• Needs

• Rebekah Batt

Backstrom v Wennberg [2023] EWFC 7928 April 2023

Mr L. Samuels KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge.The court heard cross applications for financial remedies orders. W issued a notice that H show cause why he should not be held to their pre- and post-marital agreements.H failed to attend the final h…

• Cases

• Non-Disclosure
• Disclosure
• Agreements

• Christie Elizabeth O’Connell

Cummings v Fawn [2023] EWHC 830 (Fam)14 April 2023

Mostyn J. Judgment on W’s appeal. W sought to argue that an agreement reached (and upheld by the court) should be negated or vitiated by undue influence or other oppressive conduct by the H, in addition to a number of grounds of appeal, including H&…

• Cases

• Disclosure
• Costs
• Appeals
• Consent Orders
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Rebekah Batt

HP v AP [2023] EWFC 4931 March 2023

HHJ Willans. Application to set aside a consent order on the basis that the H had failed to refer to two historic loans which were secured against a property in his sole legal name, but his father owned 100% of the beneficial interest. W argued that H…

• Cases

• Non-Disclosure
• Disclosure
• Undue Influence
• Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

• Stephanie Coker

Depletion of Business Profits and Assets During Separation and Divorce Proceedings – Would it Have Happened Anyway?

This article is written from the perspective of the business valuation expert. We often see business profits and assets deplete over the period of separation and during divorce proceedings. The question is to what extent this can/could have been controlled by the business owner (and usually shareholder/director in owner-managed businesses) and what was due to circumstances outside their control. Would the depletion of assets and profits have happened anyway if not for the divorce?

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• Disclosure
• divorce
• Experts
• Business Valuation
• Assets
• Valuations

• Hollie Edwards-Davies

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