FO v PN [2025] EWFC 327 (B)
In this judgment, HHJ Edward Hess explores the weight which should be given to pre-nuptial agreements and Deeds of Revocations where the Deed of Revocation is entered into shortly before the demise of a marriage.
Agreements
Helliwell v Entwistle [2025] EWCA Civ 1055
King, Moylan and Snowden LJJ. The Court of Appeal allowed the husband’s appeal against the final order made by Francis J on 15 March 2024, emphasising the importance of full and frank disclosure in pre-nuptial agreements when agreed by the parties.
PN v SA [2025] EWFC 141
Judgment date: 23 May 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/141
Cobb J. Third-largest financial remedy case in the jurisdiction’s history. The judge set aside a separation agreement entered into by W under significant emotional and psychological pressure.
Background
W (48), H (46). Three children aged between
Foreign Property Regimes and English Matrimonial Finance: Parity or Particularity?
Introduction
Since the landmark decision in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, [2011] 1 AC 534, English law has recognised the legitimacy of pre-nuptial agreements. As family life becomes increasingly international, the courts regularly encounter a wide variety of agreements, including those signed abroad.
The most common form of foreign
THR v WAT [2025] EWHC 1125 (Fam)
Judgment date: 17 March 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2025/1125
HHJ Hess (sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court) navigated his way through an Xydhias puzzle. Parties informed the judge they were Xydhias-bound but then argued over (i) a £2m asset, (ii) costs, (iii)
HW v WB (Financial Remedies; Treatment of Post-nuptial Agreement) [2024] EWFC 328 (B)
Judgment date: 05 July 2024
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/328.html
DJ Phillips. Final hearing where the issues concerned whether a post-nuptial agreement was binding on the parties and fair. The parties were married for 9 years and had one child, 10, and, W’s
Loh v Loh-Gronager [2024] EWFC 241 (Fam)
Judgment date: 29 July 2024
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/241
Cusworth J. A preliminary issue hearing where the substantive question was how the chattels fell to be characterised for the purposes of the prenuptial agreement (PNA), and consequently the respective entitlements of the parties in those items