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CH v TH [2024] EWFC 135 (B)26 April 2024
HHJ Willans. Final hearing in FR proceedings involving parties with widely conflicting views as to the resources available. The outcome was a modest departure from equality with a 53% split in W’s favour.
- Cases
- Procedure
- Litigation Misconduct
- Evidential Issues
- Needs
- Property Particulars
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RM v WP [2024] EWFC 191 (B)28 June 2024
HHJ Hess. Modest asset case exploring whether a departure from equality is appropriate where there were four consecutive family homes during the marriage, all of which were acquired by one party prior to the marriage.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Matrimonialisation
- Modest Asset Cases
- Needs
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MB v CD [2024] EWHC 751 (Fam)2 April 2024
Judd J. This case concerned an application by the mother for an LSPO in respect of both financial remedy and Children Act 1989 proceedings.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Costs
- Legal Services Payment Orders
- Needs
ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4
The Husband is 70. The Wife is 51. They have a 9-year-old daughter. They cohabited from February 2003 and in early 2012 separated due to the wife’s affair. In August 2012 – c.9 months later – they reunited. They married on 8 October 2012. The wife applied for divorce in May 2023. They therefore had nearly 20 years together, albeit not seamless cohabitation.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Matrimonialisation
- Needs
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ST v AR [2025] EWFC 49 January 2025
HHJ Vincent (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Final hearing in a high-value case. Court making findings on whether H’s large inheritance had been matrimonialised, W’s entitlement to a second home, and who should be awarded the family home.
- Cases
- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Needs
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V v V [2024] EWFC 380 (B)19 December 2024
HHJ Booth. Appeal from a final order in a modest asset case, in which the court was tasked with balancing the needs of a party suffering from a serious disability and the needs of the primary carer of the children of the family.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Appeals
- Mesher Orders and Deferred Charges
- Needs
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EC v JC [2024] EWFC 175 (B)13 June 2024
DJ Hatvany. Final financial remedies hearing in a where the assets were modest. The parties were married for 11 years and had twin boys aged 9. An unfortunate feature of this case was that both parties had incurred large costs, which would make clearing their debt on both sides and enabling both parties to rehouse in a three-to-four-bedroom properties close to the boy’s school problematic.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Litigation Funding
- Costs
- Debts
- Modest Asset Cases
- Needs
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HW v WB (Financial Remedies; Treatment of Post-nuptial Agreement) [2024] EWFC 328 (B)5 July 2024
DJ Phillips. Final hearing where the issues concerned whether a post-nuptial agreement was binding on the parties and fair. The parties were married for 9 years and had one child, 10, and, W’s older child, 19, who was treated as a child of the family, having been 6 years when the parties met. Four days after the marriage, the parties signed a PNA.
- Cases
- Housing Need
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Agreements
- Child Maintenance
- Needs
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KD v SD [2024] EWFC 334 (B)18 November 2024
District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing in a needs case concerning a relatively short marriage where the breadwinner and main financial contributor is now also the primary carer for the children.
- Cases
- Contributions
- Needs
- Short Marriage
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BI v EN [2024] EWFC 200 (Fam)29 July 2024
Decision of Cusworth J concluding financial remedy proceedings between W and H. The principal issue concerned the extent to which the outcome of W’s application for financial remedies should be impacted by the ‘Contrat de Mariage’ (the elected séparation de biens property regime).
- Cases
- Foreign Assets
- Sharing Principle
- Agreements
- Compensation Principle
- Needs