Experts
A Practical Guide on How to Select your Expert, Reviewing the Expert's Report and When to Consider Engaging a Shadow Expert
Fiona Hotston Moore is an accredited expert witness, instructed on 40–50 matrimonial cases each year. A significant number of these instructions are as single joint expert or party expert providing an opinion on the valuation of a business or shareholding. This article shares her practical guidance as a valuation expert for family lawyers and barristers.
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!22/11/2024 06:00
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FC v WC [2024] EWFC 29121 October 2024
HHJ Vincent sitting as a s 9 Deputy High Court Judge. The parties entered a French form of civil partnership when living in France. After returning to live in England in 2022, they were informed that their dissolution was not capable of recognition under s 235(1) CPA 2004 as at the commencement of their dissolution neither party to the dissolution was a French national and was not resident or domiciled in France.
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- Civil Partnerships
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AT v BT [2023] EWHC 3531 (Fam)6 November 2023
Final hearing in a financial remedy application in which issues included undue pressure reducing weight of PNA, compensation, and non-matrimonial assets.
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- Sharing Principle
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Agreements
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- Tax
- Compensation Principle
- Valuations
- Trusts
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D v D [2024] EWFC 7612 March 2024
HHJ Booth, sitting as a judge of the High Court: 25:75 division in favour of H following breakdown of second marriage and H’s substantial assets. Court considered W’s needs should be generously interpreted to overcome lack of SJE evidence as to W’s ill health. Needs would include W’s outstanding costs as summarily assessed by the court.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Interest
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- Costs
- Duxbury Capitalisation
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BR v BR [2024] EWFC 1130 January 2024
Peel J. When should a single joint expert (SJE) be instructed rather than two or more separately instructed experts in financial remedy proceedings?
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- Costs
- Business Assets
- Valuations
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GA v EL [2023] EWFC 20627 November 2023
Stephen Trowell KC as deputy High Court judge. Final hearing where the sole issue was how to divide proceeds of sale of a business.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Post-Separation Accrual
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- Valuations
Two Important Cases in One Day: Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil and TUI v Griffiths
As the old saying goes, you wait ages for a London bus; then two arrive at once: Griffiths & Churchill.
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!30/11/2023 17:15
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GA v EL [2023] EWFC 18731 October 2023
Peel J. Daniels v Walker application made by the Wife ('W') at a Pre-Trial Review in financial remedy proceedings.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Post-Separation Accrual
- Daniels v Walker Application
- Experts
- Business Assets
- Efficient Conduct
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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…
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Experts
- Companies
- Costs
- Valuations
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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