Cases

Litigation Funding Joinder of Third Parties Setting Aside Orders (Including Barder Applications)

Simon v (1) Simon (2) Integro Funding Limited (‘Level’) [2024] EWFC 160

Judgment date: 02 July 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/160 Peel J. The last instalment in the Simon v Simon & Level family court litigation. Level’s civil claim is yet to be determined. Peel J found that the family court cannot make a distributive order upon

Bankruptcy

Gudmundsson v Lin [2024] EWHC 1576 (Fam)

Judgment date: 21 June 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/1576 Peel J does his best to put into practice the intention of the original financial remedies order, despite H depriving W of 50% of the FMH by not informing the court that there was a bankruptcy

Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses

Brown v Brown [2024] EWFC 181 (B)

Judgment date: 26 April 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/181 DJ Dodsworth. A useful insight to a district judge level approach to contempt proceedings in financial remedies. H’s failure to file a Form E and CETV for pension. Summary W’s application for contempt. In

TLATA Applications Agreements Bankruptcy

Nilsson & Anor v Cynberg [2024] EWHC 2164 (Ch)

Judgment date: 23 August 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2024/2164 James Pickering KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. A declaration of trust is conclusive unless varied by subsequent agreement or affected by proprietary estoppel. A ‘subsequent agreement’ is not limited to those compliant with

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