Cases

Sale of Property Interim Relief Joinder of Third Parties Trusts

IN v CH [2024] EWFC 233

Judgment date: 08 July 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/233 Mr Stephen Trowell KC. The husband and wife made competing applications for an order for sale in respect of the matrimonial home and a yacht. The court found that the wife did not have a beneficial interest

Conduct Civil Partnerships

N v J [2024] EWFC 184

Judgment date: 15 July 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/184 Peel J’s view is that it is unlikely that domestic abuse would have a material impact on the vast majority of financial remedy cases, such that it would need to be litigated. Peel J uses the

Construction Of A Final Order Continuation Funds Enforcement Private Equity Funds

A v M (No 2) [2024] EWFC 214

Judgment date: 01 August 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/214 Sir Jonathan Cohen. Dispute over enforcement of a FR order giving W a share of the proceeds the husband received from a private equity fund where part of the investments in that fund were carried into a

Conduct Costs Add-Backs

DH v RH (No 4) (Costs) [2024] EWFC 114

Judgment date: 24 May 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/114 MacDonald J. Costs judgment following hearing in contentious case involving costs amounting to 23% of the assets. For previous judgments in this case, see below. By the time of this hearing, the costs amounted to £1m for

Costs Add-Backs

DH v RH (No 3) (Final Hearing) [2024] EWFC 79

Judgment date: 18 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/79 MacDonald J. Final hearing in contentious case involving high legal costs and allegations of wanton dissipation. W was aged 55 and H 58. Married July 1995. Two children aged 18 and 16 respectively. The parties had lived

Pensions on Divorce Delay Needs

RN v TT [2024] EWFC 264 (B)

Judgment date: 14 June 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/264 HHJ Hess. Facts W (51) and H (49) cohabited in a flat in W’s sole name from late 2003 and married in 2004. W was a GP. H was an occasional painter and decorator but