Costs RKV v JWC (No 2) [2025] EWFC 429 (B) Wife is granted a costs order for legal costs on the indemnity basis due to the husband’s ‘complete and multi-faceted’ misconduct, namely deception and refusal to comply with court orders.
Costs Companies Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property Setting Aside Transactions BM v MB and Others [2025] EWFC 129 Fiona Hay sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. Final hearing. The key issues revolved around a business which H had inherited shortly before the parties began cohabiting but which had been transformed during the marriage, arguments concerning non-matrimonial property, and a s 37 application.
Part III Maintenance Regulation (EU) TX v YA (No 2) [2025] EWFC 349 Cusworth J. Concerns the wife’s successful application for financial relief after the parties’ divorce in Germany, where there is a Deed outlining agreed financial provision.
Conduct Transparency Needs MRU v ECR (Financial Remedies) [2025] EWFC 218 (B) Deputy District Judge Rose. Final hearing in financial remedy proceedings. The judge dealt with issues of conduct, cost orders and transparency.
Enforcement (International) Contempt of Court Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses Service Collardeau v Fuchs: Contempt of Court [2025] EWFC 413 Poole J. An application for committal to prison for contempt of court following alleged breaches of an order made varying a final financial order.
Periodical Payments Variation Applications Undertakings ABC v XYZ (Financial Remedies: Release from Undertakings and Variation of Periodical Payments Order) [2025] EWFC 370 (B) DJ Maddison. Application by H to be released from undertakings and vary a nominal maintenance order following a significant change of circumstances. Reassessment of needs resulted in substantive joint lives provision.
Nullity Non-Qualifying Ceremony Lex Loci Celebrationis KU v BI [2025] EWFC 296 (B) Williams DDJ. Final hearing concerning the validity of a foreign marriage and whether financial remedy proceedings could be pursued.