Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
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SS v IS [2023] EWHC 1544 (Fam)14 June 2023
Roberts J. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings with issues around spousal maintenance, offshore trusts and non-matrimonial assets.
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CG v SG [2023] EWHC 942 (Fam)10 March 2023
HHJ Hess. A final hearing in financial remedy proceedings heard over six days.Both parties were in their sixties and had a long marriage of 30 years. The children were all adult and independent. During the marriage, the W, a qualified nurse, had taken on…
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Post-Separation Accrual in CG v DL – Are We Back to an Arbitrary Approach?
Practitioners will be more than familiar with the authorities that underly the principle of non-matrimonial property. It is a judicial construct created to give effect to a ‘good reason’ to depart from the ‘equal sharing principle’…
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!18/07/2023 22:39
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ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 12819 May 2022
Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'. In 2010, the parties m…
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MCA 1973, s 10(2)–(4): a New Lease of Life?
Before 6 April 2022, this section was rarely encountered in practice. Its purpose, as its headnote indicates, is to offer special protection for respondents. It was not a common feature of the family law landscape simply because its use was restricted to…
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!15/07/2022 15:13
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DE v FE [2022] EWFC 711 July 2022
Cohen J.Financial remedies claim. Parties in their forties, three young children, length of marriage c.13 years. Both parties had worked hard in the financial sector. FMH was pre-owned by H. Parties lived there together for 18–24 months before renting it…
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Gallagher v Gallagher (No.2) (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC 5313 June 2022
Mostyn J.Substantive financial remedies decision accompanying Gallagher v Gallagher (No.1) (Reporting Restrictions) [2022] EWFC 52. Assets £34.5m including value of H’s 50% shareholding in a construction company. The value of the company was established u…
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Sharing and the Family Home
Historically, a wife’s property was absorbed into that of her husband on marriage, and she was not capable of ownership in her own name thereafter. This situation, after some modest changes in the 1870s, finally changed for good with the Married Wom…
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!06/07/2022 07:05
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VV v VV [2022] EWFC 4113 May 2022
Peel J.Acrimonious and expensive financial remedy proceedings including discussion of premarital cohabitation and engagement, their effect on sharing, and conduct. Parties were both 57, married since Jan 2020, separating in June 2020. No children. W sough…
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IR v OR [2022] EWFC 2029 March 2022
Mr Justice Moor.High net worth case, judge found total net assets to be £184.6m. H had spent c.12 years as CEO, and then became Executive Chairman, of his father’s retail company which had been set up in the 1950s. Prior to marriage, H had worked in the f…
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