
Legal Services Payment Orders
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Williams v Williams [2023] EWHC 2479 (Fam)28 February 2024
Moor J: H held in contempt for failing to comply with orders; sentenced to 56 days’ imprisonment, suspended for 28 days, to allow filing of sworn Form E.
- Cases
- Freezing Injunctions
- Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2024] EWCA Civ 1008 February 2024
Bean, King and Moylan LJJ. Costs judgment following the H’s successful appeal, during which the court considered applications for costs made by both parties and an LSPO previously made.
- Cases
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Williams v Williams [2023] EWHC 3098 (Fam)13 October 2023
Moor J. Refusal of a Hadkinson order during substantive proceedings. LSPO granted for proceedings and for overseas litigation.
- Cases
- Hadkinson Orders
- Overseas Assets
- Conduct
- Legal Services Payment Orders
The Intersection Between LSPOs and Economic Abuse
Recent years have seen increasing awareness of economic abuse, and how the financial remedy process can be manipulated as a tool of such abuse. However, one aspect of this has had little attention: the intersection between economic abuse and LSPOs.
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TK v AC [2023] EWHC 2958 (Fam)10 November 2023
Sir Jonathan Cohen: LSPO and Periodical Payments from debt. H appeal against orders allowed.
- Cases
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Variation Applications
- Appeals
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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DH v RH (No 2) (Variation of Interim Arrangements) [2023] EWFC 21028 November 2023
MacDonald J. Variation of LSPO and interim maintenance.
- Cases
- Release from Undertakings
- Interim Relief
- Disclosure
- Freezing Injunctions
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Variation Applications
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Enforcement
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HAT v LAT [2023] EWFC 16229 September 2023
Peel J. Application by W for MPS and LSPO where the parties had entered into and implemented a Deed of Separation 30 years ago.
- Cases
- Agreements
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Delay
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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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.
- Cases
- Jurisdiction
- Conduct
- Appeals
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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Jardaneh v Jardaneh [2022] EWFC 20128 September 2022
HHJ Evans-Gordon. Application by W, by way of judgment summons, for the committal of H to prison for failure to make payments ordered under family law orders.
- Cases
- Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Enforcement
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DH v RH [2023] EWFC 1115 July 2023
MacDonald J. Determination of the W’s application for a legal services payment order (LSPO) and maintenance pending suit (MPS).The parties were both in their 50s and had married in 1995. They have two daughters, born in 2005 and 2007. The H had prod…
- Cases
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders