Financial Remedies
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Businesses in Financial Remedy Claims
'Business' is a term that covers a multitude of different structures. The most common are limited companies (whether public or private), partnerships and sole traders. The courts will treat different businesses in different ways.
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- Business Valuation
- Business Assets
- Sharing Principle
- Expert Evidence
- Case Management
- Business
- Companies
- Financial Remedies
- Valuations
!13/03/2024 07:00
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A Crib Sheet for those New to Financial Remedies Practice
By way of an extract from Polly Morgan's Family Law (OUP, 2nd edn, 2024), we present an aide memoire of the relevant principles and practicalities for the new financial remedies practitioner.
- Journal
- Financial Remedies
!13/03/2024 07:00
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Financial Remedies: The Law Commission’s Scoping Project
On 4 April 2023, the Law Commission announced that it would be undertaking a project to review the current law governing financial remedies on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership.The purpose of the project is to determine whether there are problems with the current law that require reform, and what the options for reform might look like.
- Journal
- Financial Remedies
!21/11/2023 07:00
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Remarriage: Avoiding the Elephant Trap
This article is a practical guide to the legal consequences of a second (/third/fourth/fifth, etc) marriage, to assist when advising clients how to avoid falling into the ‘elephant trap’ of premature remarriage – a term coined by the late Singer J.
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- Remarriage
- Divorce Application
- Remarry
- Financial Remedies
!21/11/2023 07:00
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The Financial Remedies Court: A Year in Review
Peel J argues that the FRC is generally in very good order and a flagship of the family law world, the only cloud being the ongoing struggle with the contested portal.
- Journal
- Financial Remedies
!27/09/2023 14:09
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Financial Remedies Practice 2023/24 – a Review
A review of Financial Remedies Practice 2023/24, by Kathryn Cassells, Senior associate, Vaitilingam Kay.
- Blog
- Financial Remedies
- Book Review
!05/09/2023 21:56
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To Deduct or Not to Deduct: That Remains the Question After Collardeau-Fuchs
Regarding a lesser commented upon aspect of Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead’s speech in White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981.
- Blog
- Net Values
- Financial Remedies
!05/09/2023 08:38
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What Family Lawyers Need to Know about Valuing Mixed Property Portfolios in Financial Remedy Proceedings
Over the past decade, a number of cases have come before the Family Court involving property portfolios. These cases have ranged from the seminal case of Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd & Ors [2013] UKSC 34 through to the case of ND (By her Litigation Friend) v GD [2021] EWFC 53, where provision for end-of-life care was in issue.
- Journal
- Compensation Principle
- Financial Remedies
- Conflict of Law
!03/07/2023 08:00
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DR Corner: The Drive for Gender Diversity in Private FDRs
Pressures on court time and the increasing use of remote courts over the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the increasing popularity and success of Private FDRs within (and instead of) financial remedy proceedings within the last 5 years.A Private FDR is a &l…
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- Efficient Conduct
- FDRs
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Financial Remedies
- DR Corner
- First Appointments
- arbitration
- divorce
- Private FDR
- Unconscious Bias
- Diversity
!27/03/2023 09:50