Cases

Duxbury Capitalisation Enforcement Variation Applications Release from Undertakings Periodical Payments

Collardeau v Fuchs [2025] EWFC 307

Poole J. Enforcement and variation: the court quantified arrears, discharged and capitalised the respondent husband's mortgage undertaking, replaced multiple undertakings with quantified periodical payments, and ordered immediate enforcement where H frustrated a sealed final financial remedy order.

Child Maintenance

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v LR & Anor [2025] EWFC 271 (B)

DJ Guirguis. Exercising the power contained in s 32 of the Child Support Act 1991, the court set aside a transfer of property and injuncted the respondents from further dispositions to defeat child maintenance claims.

Child Maintenance

Re: H (A Child) (Appeal: Child Maintenance)

Henke J. A failed appeal by the father against the extension of the duration of a child maintenance order beyond the age of eighteen years.

Financial Remedies

G v N [2025] EWFC 286 (B)

District Judge Shackleton. The case concerns an application for a financial remedies order following divorce between a husband and wife. The order sought, and granted, was that the marital home be transferred into the husband’s sole name following the wife’s departure nearly 30 years previously.

Appeals Agreements Disclosure Needs

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.

Appeals Costs

Helliwell v Entwistle [2025] EWCA Civ 1071

King, Moylan and Snowden LJJ. A costs judgment in the husband’s favour following his successful appeal against Francis J’s order.

Child Maintenance Costs Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property 'Top-up' Maintenance

OS v DT [2025] EWFC 156

HHJ Hess. Financial remedies final hearing heard by HHJ Hess involving total assets over £9m, and disputes concerning non-matrimonial property including post-separation income, and child periodical payments where the parties had equal shared care of the children.