Cases
Sharing Principle
Contingent Assets and Liabilities
Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
Bonuses
Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance
Variation Applications
Needs
SS v NS (Spousal Maintenance) [2014] EWHC 4183 (Fam)
Judgment date: 10 December 2014
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PZ v ZD (Financial Remedies: Needs: Adverse Inferences: Taking of Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction) [2025] EWFC 171 (B)
Judgment date: 20 March 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/171
Judgment by DDJ G Evans in a modest asset case involving significant non-disclosure and the taking of evidence from a respondent in a non-Hague Convention jurisdiction (here, Pakistan).
Background
The parties had a medium-length marriage of
Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26
Judgment date: 02 July 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2025/26
Lord Burrows and Lord Stephens (with whom Lord Reed, Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Simler agree). The Supreme Court unanimously dismissed W’s appeal, upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision, and clarified application of the sharing principle

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PZ v ZD (Financial Remedies: Needs: Adverse Inferences: Taking of Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction) [2025] EWFC 171 (B)
Judgment date: 20 March 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/171
Judgment by DDJ G Evans in a modest asset case involving significant non-disclosure and the taking of evidence from a respondent in a non-Hague Convention jurisdiction (here, Pakistan).
Background
The parties had a medium-length marriage of
Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26
Judgment date: 02 July 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2025/26
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‘You Want Me to Do What Now?’ – The Return-to-Work Question and the Quiet Cost of Executive Marriage
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She hadn’t written a CV in 20 years.
Hadn’t needed to.
When her ex’s career took off, they moved every few years. She held everything else together while he earned the money. But ‘everything else’ was a lot. A job
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