RI v NG [2025] EWFC 9 (B)7 January 2025

DJ Ashworth. The parties agreed to marry in February 2024 and the wedding was scheduled to take place on 15 May 2024, but was later called off on 30 April 2024. It was the applicant’s case that the respondent had been removing various items of jewellery not yet gifted to her from his property without his knowledge or consent.

• Cases

• Chattels
• Engagement
• Married Women's Property Act 1982
• Return of Items
• Separation

• Stephanie Coker

GO v YA [2024] EWFC 41113 December 2024

HHJ Hess sitting as Deputy High Court Judge. Discussion of valuing art and H’s art business, the difficulties of valuing large collections of art, and problems that can arise when experts are not cross-examined at final hearing.

• Cases

• Experts
• Valuations

• Beth Payne

DDR v BDR (Financial Remedies, Beneficial Ownership and Insolvency) [2024] EWFC 2788 October 2024

Alexander Chandler KC sitting as a High Court Judge. A complicated case, involving a consideration of three areas of law: insolvency, trusts of land, and financial remedies. Useful analysis of how the courts address the tension between paying creditors under a bankruptcy order and meeting the parties’ needs in a limited assets case. Useful guidance on how to resolve issues of beneficial ownership between divorcing spouses.

• Cases

• TLATA Claims
• Bankruptcy

• Neive Augustin

James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC, who has died aged 72, was a titan of the bar. In an increasingly specialised legal world, he had a uniquely broad practice for a family barrister: financial remedies, child abduction, divorce, crime, judicial review, medical disciplinary work and administrative law.

• Blog

• Obituaries

• Alexander Chandler KC

!24/01/2025 10:42

Child Maintenance and Mortgage Payments – New Guidance: LM v SSWP & NM [2024] UKUT 259 (AAC)

What happens if the Child Maintenance Service has determined that a non-resident parent is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care, but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children? Does it matter if the property is jointly owned by NRP and PWC? Will those mortgage payments reduce the amount of child maintenance?

• Blog

• Mortgages
• Child Maintenance

• Gwynfor Evans

!29/11/2024 06:00