M v B [2025] EWFC 18225 June 2025

Sir Jonathan Cohen (sitting as a judge of the High Court). Financial remedy proceedings considering the court’s power to strike out applications under FPR 4.4, having regard to the effect of FPR 9.9A.

• Cases

• 'Thwaite Jurisdiction'
• Executory Orders
• Striking Out Applications

• Monique Simone Fremder

Financial Remedy Reform – ‘Fairness’ – Do Divorcing Parties Get Any Say – Time for Some Soul Searching for Family Law Professionals

Ashley Murray considers the Law Commission’s 373-page scoping report on Financial Remedies on Divorce and Dissolution, which was published just before Christmas 2024.

• Blog

• Private FDR

• Ashley Murray

!30/06/2025 06:58

The Approach of the Family Court to Musicians’ Proprietary Interests

In 2001 Bob Dylan wrote ‘I always said you’d be sorry and today could be the day, I might need a good lawyer, Could be your funeral, my trial’. The bard is often right. Where a financial remedy case involves a musician, it is likely that they will hold some form of proprietary interest in the music they have created. This can create a complex position in fact and law.

• Journal

• Musician Divorce Assets
• Divorce and Music Copyright
• Valuation of Music Assets in Divorce
• Financial Remedy Music Rights

• Dom Christophers
• Joshua Viney

!30/06/2025 06:00

MNV v CNV [2025] EWFC 176 (B)19 June 2025

DDJ Bradshaw. Drastic change in personal circumstances results in add-back in small money case.

• Cases

• Liabilities
• Housing Need
• Small Money
• Mortgage Capacity
• Costs
• Soft Loans
• Needs
• Earning Capacity
• Add-Backs

• Abigail Clements-Bewley

Book Review: International Family Law Handbook (Resolution, 2025)

The International Family Law Handbook is an indispensable resource for all family practitioners. Written and edited by Resolution’s International Committee, it draws on the experience and expertise of an impressive list of authors including solicitors, barristers, judges and academics, many of whom also either practice or are qualified in other jurisdictions including Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Switzerland and the UAE.

• Journal

• International Family Law
• Book Review

• Michael Allum

!30/06/2025 06:00