Jurisdiction
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KV v KV [2024] EWFC 1653 July 2024
Peel J. Application by W for (i) Maintenance Pending Suit pursuant to s 22 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and (ii) a Legal Services Payment Order pursuant to s 22ZA of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Interim Relief
- Jurisdiction
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
Hemain Injunctions: How to Get Them and When not to Resist Them
A Hemain injunction application is typically made in the context of jurisdiction and/or forum non-conveniens proceedings. It is designed to restrain the respondent from progressing their rival overseas divorce petition pending the English court’s decision whether to dismiss or stay the English petition.
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- Injunctions
- divorce
- Jurisdiction
- Forum Non-Conveniens
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- Hemain
- International Family Law
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The End of the Non-Dom Tax Status: Time Now to End Family Law Domicile Jurisdiction
Domicile has been a fundamental basis of jurisdiction in English law including English family law. But it is intrinsically backward-looking, archaic in its concepts, thoroughly unknown or at best misunderstood by the population, differently defined abroad and at odds with many other countries including the EU. With the non-domicile tax status being abolished as announced in the budget in late October 2024, is it not time now to end domicile as a family law basis of jurisdiction? Nationality is a far more straightforward, certain and modern basis.
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- Jurisdiction
- Domicile
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TI v LI [2024] EWFC 163 (B)21 June 2024
Recorder Allen KC. Recognition of Pakistani divorce.
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- Jurisdiction
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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V v W [2024] EWFC 11123 May 2024
Poole J. The issues for determination were whether this court had jurisdiction to hear dissolution proceedings in relation to a French pacte civil de solidarité, and, if so, is the forum conveniens for dissolution proceedings nevertheless in France?
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- Jurisdiction
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SK v RR [2024] EWHC 1418 (Fam)1 May 2024
HHJ Moradifar. The primary issue in this case was forum and convenience, which arose from two sets of divorce proceedings.
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- Forum Conveniens
- divorce
- Jurisdiction
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Tousi v Gaydukova [2024] EWCA Civ 2036 March 2024
McFarlane P, Moylan and Holroyde LJJ. Are the parties to a void marriage able to apply for a transfer of tenancy as cohabitants, and does the lex loci celebrationis determine the ramifications of invalidity?
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- Non-Qualifying Ceremony
- Validity of marriage
- Jurisdiction
- Locus Lex Celebrationis
- Void Marriage
- Transfer of Tenancy
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C v D (No 2) (2007 Hague Convention) [2024] EWFC 3627 February 2024
MacDonald J underlines the limited circumstances in which the registration of a maintenance order pursuant to the Hague Convention 2007 may be appealed successfully.
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- Jurisdiction
- Child Maintenance
- International Enforcement
- Child Support
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VS v KS [2023] EWHC 3475 (Fam)20 November 2023
Arbuthnot J. H’s application for a stay of the financial remedy proceedings in favour of proceedings in Monaco.
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
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MS v FS (No. 3) [2023] EWFC 245 (B)23 December 2023
DDJ Mehta. This was a final hearing in a financial remedy application by H where arguments surrounding jurisdiction following remarriage, and conduct, were raised.
- Cases
- Remarriage
- Jurisdiction
- Conduct
- Needs
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