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Judgment date: 09 February 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/400
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‘You Want Me to Do What Now?’ – The Return-to-Work Question and the Quiet Cost of Executive Marriage
Introduction – the question that reveals the gap
She hadn’t written a CV in 20 years.
Hadn’t needed to.
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MacQueen v MacQueen [2024] EWFC 400 (B)
Judgment date: 09 February 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/400
District Judge Ashby. Final hearing concerning an application for a final financial remedy order in proceedings concerning serious findings of non-disclosure.
Facts
W (34) and H (30) married in July 2016. Both parties were made bankrupt
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