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A v B [2022] EWFC 149

Judgment date: 25 May 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/149.html HHJ Reardon. W’s application under s 55 of the Family Law Act 1986 for declaration that no valid marriage subsisted between the parties because at the time of the purported wedding, conducted by

Boughajdim v Hayoukane [2022] EWHC 2673 (Fam)

Judgment date: 21 October 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2022/2673 MacDonald J. Long-running complex dispute over validity of marriage. W wanted a divorce; H said there was no marriage to dissolve. A valid marriage can be conducted in Morocco without a formal ceremony. W argued that

Parveen v Hussain and the Queen’s Proctor [2022] EWCA Civ 1434

Judgment date: 04 November 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/1434.html Moylan, Asplin and Stuart-Smith LJJ. W was domiciled in Pakistan when her former husband pronounced talaq while in England. The talaq decree issued by a British mosque was certified by the Pakistani authorities as

Pre-Nuptial Agreement Drafting: Is the Profession Earning ‘an Honest Shilling’?

Pre-Nuptial Agreement Drafting: Is the Profession Earning ‘an Honest Shilling’?

Introduction In the same year when the Law Commission published its report Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements and recommended that there be ‘statutory confirmation of the contractual validity of marital agreements’ (1.32), Coleridge J, in his address at the 2014 Family Law Conference stated: ‘I am convinced that the

Freezing Injunction – Shaky Application: on Thin Ice? J v H [2022] EWFC 133

Freezing Injunction – Shaky Application: on Thin Ice? J v H [2022] EWFC 133

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/133.html Peel J was faced with an application for a freezing injunction by the husband seeking to restrain the wife from dealing with her overseas assets. The application had passed through the urgent applications judge in mid October, and by

ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 128

Judgment date: 19 May 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/128 Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country

Stacey v McNicholas [2022] EWHC 278 (Fam)

Judgment date: 02 November 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2022/278 Moor J. Under Schedule 1, F had been ordered to pay a lump sum of £350,000 to the M to act as a housing fund, in addition to a sum of £50,000 on standard