Conduct

Rose v Rose & Ors [2022] EWFC 192

Judgment date: 25 November 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/192.html His Honour Judge Booth (sitting as a Judge of the High Court pursuant to s 9 SCA 1981). How should the court ‘deal with a respondent husband who has been dishonest throughout, has failed

S v S (Conduct: Pensions) [2022] EWFC 176

Judgment date: 11 March 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/176.html HHJ Robinson. Financial remedy proceedings involving a police officer who was convicted of serious offences including rape of his W. H pension was permanently deducted by 1% following proceedings brought by his Local Police

Xanthopoulos v Rakshina [2023] EWFC 50

Judgment date: 04 April 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/50 Sir Jonathan Cohen. The latest and, one hopes, final episode in a legal saga involving financial remedy, jurisdiction and children litigation spaning 60 hearings between Russia and England, in which H alone had sought counsel and legal

X v Y, Re Z (No. 4 Schedule 1 award) [2023] EWFC 25

Judgment date: 07 March 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/25.pdf Mr Justice Cobb. M’s application under Schedule 1 for financial provision from F, who lives in the USA, for Zoe who is 2 years 4 months old and suffers from Williams Syndrome. Zoe

MN v AN [2023] EWHC 613 (Fam)

Judgment date: 10 March 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/613.html Moor J. H’s application that W show cause why she should not be held to the terms of a 2005 (pre-Radmacher) prenuptial agreement. H’s premarital assets £32.5 million and W’s

DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 6

Judgment date: 10 January 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/6 HHJ Madeleine Reardon. Finding of economic abuse and consideration of whether it met the level of s 25 conduct. Parties aged 49 (W) and 59 (H), married 1994, separated 2018, children adults. Marriage void for W’s

Economic Abuse as ‘Conduct’

Economic Abuse as ‘Conduct’

The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (‘DAA 2021’) which came into force on 1 October 2021 created statutory definitions of specific forms of abusive behaviour. ‘Economic abuse’ is defined in s 1(4) as ‘any behaviour that has a substantial adverse effect on B’s ability to (a) acquire, use or