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A Wife v A Husband [2023] EWFC 2009 November 2023
HHJ Willans. Financial remedy application involving a single issue, namely, what were W’s housing needs and how should those needs be funded.
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- Agreements
- Jurisdiction
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Debts
- Needs
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Lazaros Panagiotis Xanthopoulos v Alla Alexsandrovna Rakshina [2023] EWFC 15826 September 2023
Peel J granted the husband’s application for a legal services payment order to allow him to pursue his appeal in this long-running case.
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- Legal Services Payment Orders
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J v A [2023] EWFC 13221 July 2023
H's application for a stay of the English divorce proceedings commenced by W, in favour of his competing Nigerian divorce petition.
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- Forum Conveniens
- divorce
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- Domicile
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AW v AH [2022] EWFC 19511 August 2022
Deputy District Judge Michael Horton QC. The reserved judgment at a final hearing for financial relief under Part III of the 1984 Act. Short marriage of 3 years including cohabitation, one child of the family aged 3.5 living with the wife (AW) in England.…
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- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Jurisdiction
- Divorce Jurisdiction Post-Brexit
- Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act
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AR v BR [2023] EWFC 7613 March 2023
HHJ Lynn Roberts. Divorce proceedings concerning UK nationals who relocated to Dubai in 2020. W commenced divorce proceedings in England. H did not dispute the divorce, but proceeded to say that he did not agree jurisdiction. H later began divorce proceed…
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- Forum Conveniens
- divorce
- Jurisdiction
- Domicile
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Tousi v Gayukova [2023] EWHC 404 (Fam)27 February 2023
Mostyn J. Does the court have jurisdiction to transfer a (housing association) tenancy between the parties to an invalid marriage? Do the consequences of invalidity fall to be determined under the law of the country of marriage, or only whether the marria…
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- Non-Qualifying Ceremony
- Validity of marriage
- Jurisdiction
- Locus Lex Celebrationis
- Void Marriage
- Transfer of Tenancy
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Timokhin v Timokhina [2023] EWHC 58 (Fam)17 January 2023
Roberts J. Was a decision to stay a Sch 1 application pending conclusion of proceedings in another jurisdiction a substantive or procedural one?The parties were Russian nationals and parents to two children, aged 11 and 18. The children had lived in Londo…
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- Jurisdiction
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Appeals
- Striking Out Applications
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Nicolaisen v Nicolaisen [2022] EWFC 701 July 2022
Moor J. A case involving complex jurisdiction arguments, habitual residence, international marital agreements and underlying assets worth over £200m.Husband (‘H’) was 70 years old and a Norwegian national. The Wife (‘W’) was 50 years old, born in Turkmeni…
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- Forum
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XO v YO & Anor [2022] EWFC 11422 September 2022
HHJ Hess. Financial remedies decision concerning whether English court had jurisdiction to determine a claim in respect of immovable property situated outside England where the claim is based on equity; and can adverse inferences be drawn from a party’s f…
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- Foreign Assets
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- Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and Their Recognition
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