QW v GH [2025] EWFC 19 (B)31 January 2025

DJ Worthley. Final hearing in a financial relief claim brought by W 8 years after the parties separated.

• Cases

• Post-Separation Accrual
• Jurisdiction
• Delay

• Emily Lennon

MacQueen v MacQueen [2024] EWFC 400 (B)9 February 2025

District Judge Ashby. Final hearing concerning an application for a final financial remedy order in proceedings concerning serious findings of non-disclosure.

• Cases

• Non-Disclosure
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Financial Remedies Court (FRC)

• Katie Stephens

Stamp Duty Land Tax and Divorce

This is sometimes the forgotten tax on divorce. Maybe this is fair enough as there is a pretty clear exemption in tax law that states that stamp duty land tax (SDLT) will not apply to transfers pursuant to divorce.

• Blog

• Stamp Duty
• Tax
• Land

• Sofia Thomas

!10/02/2025 23:53

P v Q, R and S [2024] EWFC 164 (B)19 June 2024

District Judge Veal. Final hearing concerning W’s claim in financial remedy proceedings for a beneficial interest in two properties which had been bought and renovated by H and the intervenors, H’s parents. District Judge Veal found that W had been dishonest in pursuing her claims and had presented her case in a ‘nebulous way’ which must have felt ‘like a real slap in the face’ for the intervenors.

• Cases

• Transparency
• TOLATA Claims
• Joinder of Third Parties
• Trusts

• Lucy Taylor (Coram Chambers)

What to Do Where One Spouse Will Not Co-operate with a Court-Ordered Sale?

The recently reported case of WZ v HZ [2024] EWFC 407 (B) (1 May 2024) provides guidance on how to manage the common occurrence of one spouse holding out in the family home despite an order for sale.

• Blog

• Sale of Property

• Rory Collett

!06/02/2025 08:00