Balancing the Books: Equitable Accounting in Trusts of Land Disputes

This article aims to provide the busy family practitioner with a fairly comprehensive guide to the what, where, when, and how of equitable accounting, specifically in the context of trusts of land, to assist you in getting such claims off on the right footing.

• Journal

• TLATA Applications
• Cohabitation
• Equitable Accounting

• Charlotte John
• Cameron Stocks

!22/11/2024 06:00

Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 56723 May 2024

Landmark decision where Court of Appeal reduces W’s award by £20 million. Lord Justice Moylan, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Phillips.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Sharing
• Gifts
• Matrimonialisation
• Tax
• Autonomy
• Trusts

• Sophia Paraskeva

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

Once upon a time, not so long ago, ‘ancillary relief’ was something of a legal backwater. Cases were determined solely by reference to ‘reasonable requirements’. Procedural rules, to the extent they existed, were short and loosely applied. Parties filed narrative affidavits of means and answered requests for further and better particulars.

• Journal

• Procedure
• Financial Remedies

• Alexander Chandler KC

!22/11/2024 06:00

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

• Rebekah Batt

Dangers of Applying PSOs Determined Using pre-McCloud CEVs on ‘McCloud compliant’ CEVs

Those working in the Pensions on Divorce arena (whether PODEs, solicitors or scheme administrators) will by now be all too familiar with the McCloud ruling, and how much additional work this has caused for cases involving public sector pension schemes.

• Blog

• Pensions on Divorce

• Rahim Rashid

!21/11/2024 08:55