Cases

Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property Duration of the Marriage Costs

S v S [2023] EWFC 269

Judgment date: 07 June 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/269.html Background HHJ Booth prefers Moylan LJ’s approach to matrimonial/non-matrimonial property, in which a scientific approach only takes one so far and the court must apply its discretion, over Mostyn J’s more

Costs Tax Trusts

ES v SS [No.2] [2024] EWFC 59

Judgment date: 18 March 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/59.html Sir Jonathan Cohen: determination as to the distribution of trust assets following a final hearing. In October 2023, the court handed down a substantive judgment in the parties’ financial remedies proceedings. The effect of

Proprietary Estoppel

Julie Annette Merryman v Alex Raymond Merryman & Ors [2024] EWFC 58 (B)

Judgment date: 14 March 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/58 HHJ Baddeley. Four stepchildren intervene successfully in financial remedies case in respect of four farming properties. The judgment disposes of an application made by four children (‘the children’) to intervene in financial remedies proceedings between their

Freezing Injunctions Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses Costs Legal Services Payment Orders

Williams v Williams [2023] EWHC 2479 (Fam)

Judgment date: 28 February 2024 https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/committal-for-contempt-of-court-abigail-laura-williams-v-andrew-john-williams/ Moor J: H held in contempt for failing to comply with orders; sentenced to 56 days’ imprisonment, suspended for 28 days, to allow filing of sworn Form E. Background H is exceptionally wealthy with assets held overseas of more

Non-Qualifying Ceremony Validity of marriage Jurisdiction Locus Lex Celebrationis Void Marriage

Tousi v Gaydukova [2024] EWCA Civ 203

Judgment date: 06 March 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2024/203 McFarlane P, Moylan and Holroyde LJJ. Are the parties to a void marriage able to apply for a transfer of tenancy as cohabitants, and does the lex loci celebrationis determine the ramifications of invalidity? Appeal from

Housing Need Child Maintenance Needs of a Disabled Child Costs Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

SP v QR [2024] EWFC 57 (B)

Judgment date: 12 March 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/57.html HHJ Hess. Schedule 1 application with a ‘more modest’ asset base regarding residence in a property subject to a mortgage and ‘top-up’ maintenance for a disabled child. Background The applicant mother was 37 years

Housing Need Agreements Duxbury Capitalisation Needs

BL v OR [2023] EWFC 229 (Fam)

Judgment date: 07 December 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/229.html Sir Jonathan Cohen. Final hearing involving a prenuptial agreement in circumstances where W had transferred her property, which amounted to W parting with the bulk of her assets. H was a wealthy man, and