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

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

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

A v B [2025] EWFC 12714 April 2025

Trowell J. Application for a lump sum for litigation costs under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 in relation to proceedings under s 8 of the Children Act 1989.

• Cases

• Costs
• Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

• Katie Stephens