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Backstrom v Wennberg [2023] EWFC 79

Judgment date: 28 April 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/79 Mr L. Samuels KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge. The court heard cross applications for financial remedies orders. W issued a notice that H show cause why he should not be held to their pre-

HP v AP [2023] EWFC 49

Judgment date: 31 March 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/49.html HHJ Willans. Application to set aside a consent order on the basis that the H had failed to refer to two historic loans which were secured against a property in his sole legal name,

Depletion of Business Profits and Assets During Separation and Divorce Proceedings – Would it Have Happened Anyway?

Depletion of Business Profits and Assets During Separation and Divorce Proceedings – Would it Have Happened Anyway?

Introduction This article is written from the perspective of the business valuation expert. We often see business profits and assets deplete over the period of separation and during divorce proceedings. The question is to what extent this can/could have been controlled by the business owner (and usually shareholder/director

Goddard-Watts v Goddard-Watts [2023] EWCA Civ 115

Judgment date: 15 February 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2023/115 Lady Justice Macur, Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lady Justice Carr. W’s appeal of order made by Sir Jonathan Cohen in January 2022 (see previous case summary) using the ‘Kingdon approach’. On two separate occasions

XO v YO & Anor [2022] EWFC 114

Judgment date: 22 September 2022 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/114.html HHJ Hess. Financial remedies decision concerning whether English court had jurisdiction to determine a claim in respect of immovable property situated outside England where the claim is based on equity; and can adverse inferences

X v Y [2022] EWFC 95

Judgment date: 15 August 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/95 HHJ Hess. Financial remedy judgment in which the wife’s capital claims were adjourned for a decade in view of dishonest fabrication of bank statements by H and uncertainty as to assets. Judgment published ‘to draw wider