
Maintenance Pending Suit
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SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 710 January 2025
Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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HA v EN [2025] EWHC 48 (Fam)15 January 2025
Deputy High Court Judge Richard Todd KC. Application by W for maintenance pending suit (MPS) and a legal services payment order (LSPO) in protracted financial remedy proceedings.
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders
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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
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LI v FT (Maintenance Pending Suit) [2024] EWFC 342 (B)19 July 2024
DDJ Harrop. Decision on costs after an MPS application with no clear winner. The court was dismayed by what had been incurred in legal fees contesting the MPS application. W incurred £27,000 in a little over a month and H nearly £12,000. The sums could have paid for the disputed holiday nearly twice over or, as the husband points out, met a term’s school fees. The MPS costs were the context of W having already incurred £100,000 in legal fees up to the FDA, and H’s £26,000.
- Cases
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Costs
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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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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
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Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 4526 April 2022
Mostyn J. W’s application for enforcement of interim maintenance order (maintenance decision summarised here. H had negligently failed to pay wages of staff at the parties’ house in Antibes, such payments being part of the interim order. While court did n…
- Cases
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Enforcement
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Baker v Baker [2022] EWFC 154 February 2022
Mostyn J.Application by W for maintenance pending suit following Rattan v Kuwad [2021] EWCA Civ 1. Held, court entitled to make assumptions about H’s ability to pay in face of ‘lamentable’ disclosure. Declines to allow W to roll up part of her income in c…
- Cases
- Disclosure
- Conduct
- Maintenance Pending Suit
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MG v GM [2022] EWFC 81 March 2022
MPS and LSPO application by W in a case described by Peel J as 'a battle royale' ([3]). Each party denied holding liquid assets, and asserted the other had access to significant wealth. Peel J decided that in these circumstances he must be circumspect. It…
- Cases
- Interim Relief
- Maintenance Pending Suit
- Legal Services Payment Orders