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What to Do Where One Spouse Will Not Co-operate with a Court-Ordered Sale?
The recently reported case of WZ v HZ [2024] EWFC 407 (B) (1 May 2024) provides guidance on how to manage the common occurrence of one spouse holding out in the family home despite an order for sale.
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- Sale of Property
!06/02/2025 08:00
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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
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.
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- Obituaries
!24/01/2025 10:42
Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?
In Rossi v Rossi [2007] 1 FLR 790 Nicholas Mostyn QC adopted a formulaic approach in relation to ‘a post-separation bonus or other earned income’. He stated that ‘[a]lthough there is an element of arbitrariness’ he would not allow a post-separation bonus to be classed as non-matrimonial ‘unless it related to a period which commenced at least 12 months after the separation’.
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- Post-Separation Accrual
!05/02/2025 11:51
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QW v GH [2025] EWFC 19 (B)31 January 2025
DJ Worthley. Final hearing in a financial relief claim brought by W 8 years after the parties separated.
- Cases
- Post-Separation Accrual
- Jurisdiction
- Delay
