Financial Remedies – Next Steps on the Road to Reform?

On 18 December 2024 the Law Commission published its Scoping Report on financial remedies on divorce and dissolution. The Scoping Report sets out their findings that the current law does not provide a cohesive framework in which couples going through a divorce can expect fair and sufficiently certain outcomes.

• Journal

• Reform
• Maintenance
• Conduct
• Law Commission
• Pensions
• Nuptial Agreements
• Financial Remedies

• Professor Nick Hopkins
• Professor Thérèse Callus
• Christine Gentry

!18/03/2025 06:00

Potential Curtailment of the English Court’s Powers Under Part III MFPA

The recent decision in TY v XA [2024] EWFC 96 has received attention as the first reported MFPA 1984 Part III leave/set aside case since the Supreme Court decision in Potanina v Potanin. What has perhaps gone under the radar is the suggestion made that the English family court may be prevented from making a maintenance order under Part III if there is a post-Brexit maintenance agreement or order from another 2007 Hague Convention signatory.

• Blog

• Part III
• Maintenance

• Michael Allum

!04/06/2024 10:32

Maintenance for a Disabled Adult Child: A Case of Legal Blogging

Given the announcement of a new Financial Remedies Court reporting pilot, Polly Morgan discusses the process of legal blogging: the rules around accessing the hearing, the practicalities of reporting, the framework for controlling what can be reported, and the drafting of a reporting restriction order.

• Journal

• Transparency
• Publicity and Confidentiality
• Maintenance

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

!13/03/2024 07:00

Villiers v Villiers [2022] EWCA Civ 77210 June 2022

Moylan LJ, Coulson LJ and Arnold LJ.Appeal concerning an order by Mostyn J dismissing W’s application under s 27 of MCA 1973. Case provides useful content on the interpretation and application of s 27. It was concluded that W’s application had been wrongl…

• Cases

• Maintenance
• Disclosure
• Jurisdiction

• Stephanie Coker