Cases

Costs Enforcement

AB v BA [2024] EWHC 1179 (Fam)

Judgment date: 05 March 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1179 Cusworth J. Appeals allowed against instalment quantum for payment of costs and the requirement for permission to enforce further costs orders. Financial remedy proceedings concluded in summer 2019 with joint lives maintenance. Two subsequent costs orders

Child Maintenance Conduct Costs Disclosure from Third Parties Enforcement

UD v TQ [2024] EWFC 119 (B)

Judgment date: 26 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/119 HHJ Hess. Final hearing in case involving footballer. Application of Moher in light of H’s misconduct and attachment of earnings order made to secure maintenance. W is aged 27, a former television presenter living abroad

Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property Agreements

NM v PM [2024] EWFC 199 (B)

Judgment date: 18 July 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/199 DDJ Nahal-Macdonald. Preliminary issues hearing in relation to interpretation of a clause in a prenuptial agreement. Parties married 2010 and separated in 2023. W is a barrister aged 58 and H is a solicitor advocate aged

Legal Services Payment Orders Efficient Conduct

RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155 (Fam)

Judgment date: 06 October 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/3155 Roberts J. Appeal from HHJ Ellis who had refused F’s application for a legal services payment order of £125,000 in relation to his s 8 and Schedule 1 applications. F’s Sch 1 application

Spousal Maintenance (Quantum) Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

Potanina v Potanin [2021] EWCA Civ 702

Judgment date: 13 May 2021 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2021/702 King, David Richards and Moylan LJJ. The second in the trio of Potanina v Potanin decisions, these case summaries should be read in order. This one is the Court of Appeal decision where Lady Justice King

Spousal Maintenance (Quantum) Overseas Divorce and the 1984 Act Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

Potanin v Potanina [2019] EWHC 2956 (Fam)

Judgment date: 08 November 2019 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2019/2956.html Cohen J. The first in the trio of Potanina v Potanin decisions. This one is the High Court decision where Mr Justice Cohen dismissed W’s application for leave to bring a claim under

Housing Need Pensions on Divorce Impaired Life Expectancy Costs

BC v SC [2023] EWFC 307 (B)

Judgment date: 12 December 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2023/307 DDJ Holmes-Milner. FR decision at DDJ level. Consideration of treatment of critical illness payout for H’s cancer. H is a chartered accountant aged 46 and W a teacher aged 47. Two children, one an adult