WK v GC [2023] EWFC 15128 April 2023

HHJ Hess. Approach to quantifying capitalisation of spousal maintenance some years after original order.

• Cases

• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Pensions on Divorce
• Variation Applications
• Duxbury Capitalisation

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

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.

• Cases

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Special Contribution
• Trusts

• Rebekah Batt

AB v CD [2022] EWFC 19816 September 2022

HHJ Shelton. Hearing on 14–15 July 2022. Cross-applications to vary global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance order.

• Cases

• Global Maintenance Orders
• Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Child Maintenance
• Variation Applications
• Needs

• Nicole Bryan-Quamina

AB v CD [2023] EWFC 10318 May 2023

HHJ Shelton. Hearing on 10 February 2023. Cross-applications to vary global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance order.

• Cases

• Global Maintenance Orders
• Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Child Maintenance
• Variation Applications
• Needs

• Nicole Bryan-Quamina

Li v Simons [2023] EWHC 1626 (Fam)30 June 2023

Moor J. Judgment on an appeal against an order made in a variation of maintenance application.The parties reached an agreement settling the financial claims arising out of their marriage in April 2020, and a consent order was made in those terms in July 2…

• Cases

• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Costs
• Variation Applications
• Appeals
• Litigation Misconduct

• Rebekah Batt

AB v CD [2022] EWFC 1975 January 2022

HHJ Shelton. Cross applications to vary a global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance. The global order at the time of this judgment was £1,250pcm (£1,249 child and £1pm spousal).Th…

• Cases

• Global Maintenance Orders
• Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Child Maintenance
• Variation Applications
• Needs

• Nicole Bryan-Quamina

Fairness versus Certainty – Should the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 be Amended to Restrict the Duration of Spousal Maintenance?

As part of the Law Commission’s review of the law concerning financial division upon divorce, announced on 4 April 2023, it will consider ‘how maintenance payments for an ex-spouse or civil partner should work’. The terms of reference se…

• Journal

• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)

• Katherine Dunseath
• Elizabeth Darlington

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D v D (Financial Remedy Case) [2020] EWFC B2420 May 2022

DJ John Smart.Rare reported modest asset case. Identification of needs in a marriage that, with prior cohab, had lasted only 10 months. Parties aged 51 and 49. Modest assets, almost all brought into the marriage by H, including the FMH in H’s sole name an…

• Cases

• Duration of the Marriage
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Conduct
• Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
• Needs

• Polly Morgan | Case Editor

DX v JX [2022] EWFC 1916 March 2022

Moor J.H’s application to vary and/or terminate a spousal periodical payments order, which was agreed by consent in 2017 in England. The spousal periodical payments order was a fixed percentage of H’s income, as opposed to being calculated by reference to…

• Cases

• Release from Undertakings
• Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
• Jurisdiction
• Variation Applications

• Stephanie Coker