MR v EF [2024] EWFC 144 (B)20 June 2024

Recorder Rhys Taylor in financial remedy proceedings makes findings in favour of the wife as to the date of separation of the parties.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Duration of the Marriage

• Isabella Thomas-Kelly

S v S [2023] EWFC 2697 June 2023

HHJ Booth prefers Moylan LJ’s approach to matrimonial/non-matrimonial property, in which a scientific approach only takes one so far and the court must apply its discretion, over Mostyn J’s more scientific and formulaic approach.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Duration of the Marriage
• Costs

• Elizabeth Bowden

SS v ES [2023] EWFC 17713 October 2023

Sir Jonathan Cohen. W’s application for financial remedy which included aspects of pre-marital property, post-separation accrual and Wells sharing.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Post-Separation Accrual
• Duration of the Marriage
• Wells Sharing

• Isabella Thomas-Kelly

FT v JT [2023] EWFC 25011 December 2023

Recorder Nicholas Allen KC. Final hearing to determine the date of separation and accordingly the extent of post-separation endeavour.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Post-Separation Accrual
• Duration of the Marriage
• Date of Separation

• Sapna Jain

Pensions on Divorce – Standard Family Order Template and Short Marriages

This article deals with two points. The first relates to the publication of the new pension sharing order (PSO) template at paragraph number 95 in the Standard Family Orders suite. The second relates to the issue of short marriages in the context of pensi…

• Journal

• Duration of the Marriage
• Pensions on Divorce

• Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor

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Unilateral Assets and Short Marriages after E v L – Another White Leopard?

It was made clear by the Court of Appeal in Miller v Miller [2005] EWCA Civ 984, [2006] 1 FLR 151 that none of the pre-White v White [2000] UKHL 54, [2000] 2 FLR 981 so-called short marriage cases had survived the change in judicial approach that White heralded.

• Journal

• Duration of the Marriage
• Unilateral Assets

• Nicholas Allen KC

!03/07/2023 08:00

Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2022] EWFC 11917 October 2022

Mostyn J. W’s application for (i) the recission of decree nisi, (ii) the dismissal of the underlying divorce petition and (iii) the set aside of the financial order made subsequent to that. The parties had been the subject of Mostyn J’s judgment of BN v M…

• Cases

• Duration of the Marriage
• Agreements
• Setting Aside a Decree Nisi
• Rescission of Divorce Decree

• Henry Pritchard

DE v FE [2022] EWFC 711 July 2022

Cohen J.Financial remedies claim. Parties in their forties, three young children, length of marriage c.13 years. Both parties had worked hard in the financial sector. FMH was pre-owned by H. Parties lived there together for 18–24 months before renting it…

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Duration of the Marriage
• Valuations

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

D v D (Financial Remedy Case) [2020] EWFC B2420 May 2022

DJ John Smart.Rare reported modest asset case. Identification of needs in a marriage that, with prior cohab, had lasted only 10 months. Parties aged 51 and 49. Modest assets, almost all brought into the marriage by H, including the FMH in H’s sole name an…

• Cases

• Duration of the Marriage
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Conduct
• Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
• Needs

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor