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Help to Shape How Pensions on Divorce Reports Are Prepared

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (the IFoA) is looking for family lawyers to join a new working party looking at Pensions on Divorce. It is critical that courts receive appropriate expert advice in relation to the often complex pension arrangements of divorcing parties. A small number of actuaries and

Nilsson & Anor v Cynberg [2024] EWHC 2164 (Ch)

Judgment date: 23 August 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2024/2164 James Pickering KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. A declaration of trust is conclusive unless varied by subsequent agreement or affected by proprietary estoppel. A ‘subsequent agreement’ is not limited to those compliant with

AB v BA [2024] EWHC 1179 (Fam)

Judgment date: 05 March 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1179 Cusworth J. Appeals allowed against instalment quantum for payment of costs and the requirement for permission to enforce further costs orders. Financial remedy proceedings concluded in summer 2019 with joint lives maintenance. Two subsequent costs orders

UD v TQ [2024] EWFC 119 (B)

Judgment date: 26 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/119 HHJ Hess. Final hearing in case involving footballer. Application of Moher in light of H’s misconduct and attachment of earnings order made to secure maintenance. W is aged 27, a former television presenter living abroad

Cohabitation and Separation: When Does the Clock Start and Stop?

Cohabitation and Separation: When Does the Clock Start and Stop?

Since the two seminal decisions of the House of Lords, first in White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 and then in Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] 1 FLR 1186, introduced practitioners to the potentially crucial distinction (in sharing cases, at least) between matrimonial and non-matrimonial property, and

Cohabitation Reform Under the New Labour Government: Moving From a ‘Whether’ to a ‘What’?

Cohabitation Reform Under the New Labour Government: Moving From a ‘Whether’ to a ‘What’?

The law around cohabitation has been ripe for reform for many years. As far back as 2007, the Law Commission of England and Wales recommended that it be updated, so as to safeguard couples against uncertainty and injustice in the event of relationship breakdown. Similarly, academics and practitioners have long

NCDR Redux: The Impact of October’s CPR Amendments

NCDR Redux: The Impact of October’s CPR Amendments

One of the changes to the FPR 2010 made when the material parts of the Family Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023 came into force on 29 April 2024 was an amendment to r 28.3(7) which by the insertion of a new (aa)(ii) makes ‘any failure by