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K v P (Criminal Solicitor as Court-Appointed QLR) [2025] EWFC 321

Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division. A court-appointed QLR was terminated in children proceedings where the same QLR was acting in a parallel criminal case, as the dual representation undermines the protective aims of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 scheme for vulnerable witnesses.

DH v RH (No 6) (Application to Set Aside) [2025] EWFC 175

MacDonald J. Ex-tempore judgment handed down almost 12 months after the final order had been made. W had made various applications following the final order, including to set aside the final order and to commit H, whilst H in response to W’s failure to comply had also made multiple applications.

Collardeau v Fuchs [2025] EWFC 307

Poole J. Enforcement and variation: the court quantified arrears, discharged and capitalised the respondent husband's mortgage undertaking, replaced multiple undertakings with quantified periodical payments, and ordered immediate enforcement where H frustrated a sealed final financial remedy order.

K v P (Criminal Solicitor as Court-Appointed QLR) Neutral Citation Number[2025] EWFC 321

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/321

Applied Theatre and the Advocacy Gap in Financial Remedies

Closing the gap between legal recognition and judicial persuasion.

HA v EN [2025] EWHC 2436 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2025/2436.html

War (of the Roses) – What Is It Good For?

The release of a new film has sparked a wave of commentary from the press and family lawyers alike. It shows that bloody mindedness and divorce are a timeless combination. Contains spoilers!

Standish v Standish Collection

A collection of all of our summaries, blogs, and articles about this case.

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v LR & Anor [2025] EWFC 271 (B)

DJ Guirguis. Exercising the power contained in s 32 of the Child Support Act 1991, the court set aside a transfer of property and injuncted the respondents from further dispositions to defeat child maintenance claims.

Finality and Funding: The Implications of a Clean Break following CC v UU

The judgment of Peel J in CC v UU [2025] EWFC 214 provides a further glimpse of the LSPO regime, and seeks to establish definitively when the opportunity to seek an LSPO ceases.

Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs Collection

A collection of all of our summaries, blogs, and articles about this case.

Gottle O’ Geer: Witness Statements and Their Misuse

Most financial remedy cases don’t ‘go to trial’, for a host of good reasons: litigation is expensive, stressful and uncertain: even the strongest-looking cases have been known to develop cracks when exposed to cross-examination. Sometimes these emerge in answer to the gentlest of questioning.

Re: H (A Child) (Appeal: Child Maintenance)

Henke J. A failed appeal by the father against the extension of the duration of a child maintenance order beyond the age of eighteen years.

G v N [2025] EWFC 286 (B)

District Judge Shackleton. The case concerns an application for a financial remedies order following divorce between a husband and wife. The order sought, and granted, was that the marital home be transferred into the husband’s sole name following the wife’s departure nearly 30 years previously.