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AB v CD [2022] EWFC 197

Judgment date: 05 January 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/197.html 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

Koukash v Koukash [2022] EWHC 1001 (Fam)

Judgment date: 11 April 2022 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2022/1001.html Cohen J. Appeal from decision of HHJ Greensmith on quantification of lump sum, which had been based on privileged FDR documents. The first instance judge had to determine what amount of lump sum was

The Duty to Advise – Analysis of Lewis v Cunningtons Solicitors [2023] EWHC 822 (KB)

The Duty to Advise – Analysis of Lewis v Cunningtons Solicitors [2023] EWHC 822 (KB)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2023/822.html Introduction There is little doubt from experience of general family finance practice that the frequency of solicitors’ use of client signed disclaimers has increased over the last decade. The form and practice of doing so is not consistent nor

CG v DL [2023] EWFC 82

Judgment date: 25 May 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/82.html Cohen J. This was the final hearing in the W’s application for financial remedies, following a long relationship of 27/28 years, during which the parties had two children aged 13 and 19.

Post-Separation Accrual in CG v DL – Are We Back to an Arbitrary Approach?

Post-Separation Accrual in CG v DL – Are We Back to an Arbitrary Approach?

Practitioners will be more than familiar with the authorities that underly the principle of non-matrimonial property. It is a judicial construct created to give effect to a ‘good reason’ to depart from the ‘equal sharing principle’ as developed through cases from White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 through to