When It’s Good, It’s Very Good… The ES2, Aged Three; a Pedant’s Perspective

On 11 January 2025, the pro forma schedule of assets known to all as the ES2 turned three years old. Just like the little girl (with the little curl, right in the middle of her forehead) of nursery rhyme fame, who one imagines may be of a similar age, when it’s good, it’s very good, and when it’s bad, it’s horrid.

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• Asset Schedules

• Andrew Day

!11/04/2025 07:00

Housing Particulars: Mind the Gap

The Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court Below High Court Judge Level (11 January 2022) requires that 14 days before the First Appointment each party should use their best endeavours ‘to file with the court and serve on the other party no more than three sets of property particulars showing what their case is likely to be on housing need for themself and the other party’.

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• Housing Need

• Nicholas Allen KC

!17/04/2025 07:00

X v Y, Re Z (No. 4 Schedule 1 award) [2023] EWFC 257 March 2023

Mr Justice Cobb. M’s application under Schedule 1 for financial provision from F, who lives in the USA, for Zoe who is 2 years 4 months old and suffers from Williams Syndrome. Zoe also has a congenital heart defect and displays global developmental…

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• Conduct
• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
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• Rebekah Batt

Schedule 1 Property Structures

The main focus in cases under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 is often on how to meet the housing needs of a child; understandably so, as it is usually the largest cost. It can also be the starting point for settlement as the type of property and loca…

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• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Jemma Pollock
• Rebecca Fisher
• Pieter Boodt

!06/07/2022 07:07

Culligan v Culligan [2025] EWFC 114 January 2025

MacDonald J. An equal division of the matrimonial assets following a 40-year marriage, including a Wells share in favour of W.

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• Wells Sharing
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• Crypto
• Valuations

• Olivia Currie