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Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?

Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?

In Rossi v Rossi [2007] 1 FLR 790 Nicholas Mostyn QC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) adopted a formulaic approach in relation to ‘a post-separation bonus or other earned income’. He stated at [24.4] that ‘[a]lthough there is an element of arbitrariness’ he would not allow

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

The Husband is 70. The Wife is 51. They have a 9-year-old daughter. They cohabited from February 2003 and in early 2012 separated due to the wife’s affair. In August 2012 – c.9 months later – they reunited. They married on 8 October 2012. In November 2020 the parties relocated

Of Dogs and Divorce

Of Dogs and Divorce

Of dogs and divorce: why treating pets as chattels is an anachronism. This is Ernest, our beloved English bull terrier. According to English law he has the same status as the chaise longue upon which he is performing his Kate Winslet impersonation. How can this be right? How can he

Ma v Roux: Yes, You Can Strike Out a Set Aside Application

Ma v Roux: Yes, You Can Strike Out a Set Aside Application

This is a response to the FRJ blog post by Nicholas Allen KC and Philip Tait, ‘Ma v Roux: Can You Strike Out a Set Aside Application?’ (25 September 2024), which posed the question as to whether the court is empowered to strike out an application to set aside a

The Lord Chancellor v 79 Divorced Couples: A Pirate’s Tale

The Lord Chancellor v 79 Divorced Couples: A Pirate’s Tale

At the end of term, the High Court handed down judgment in a challenging case, whose solution lay in the application of a much-forgotten 53-year-old judgment of the ‘pirate-like’ Sir Jocelyn Simon P to seemingly irresolvable issues caused by errors in the digitalisation of the divorce process. Digitalisation Taking a

The Duty of Disclosure: as Important Now as Ever

The Duty of Disclosure: as Important Now as Ever

The duty of disclosure and its proactive nature runs through financial remedy proceedings like letters through a stick of seaside rock. It appears on the face of the Form E. It has been set out in numerous cases. As was noted in Bokor-Ingram v Bokor-Ingram [2009] 2 FLR 922 by

The Year in Review

The Year in Review

As 2024 comes to an end the “Year in Review” brings all the FRJ blogs from the year together in one place for a ‘real time’ review of what was important, when, and why over the last 12 months. Click below to download the PDF: FRJ Year in Review 2024frj-year-in-review-2024144293f0-b0c0-406a-91d0-14cee39c041a.