Duration of the Marriage

MR v EF [2024] EWFC 144 (B)

Judgment date: 20 June 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/144 Recorder Rhys Taylor in financial remedy proceedings makes findings in favour of the wife as to the date of separation of the parties. The parties cohabited from 1978 and married in 1980 but could not agree

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

FT v JT [2023] EWFC 250

Judgment date: 11 December 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2023/250 Recorder Nicholas Allen KC. Final hearing to determine the date of separation and accordingly the extent of post-separation endeavour. The parties met in February 2007 and cohabited before marrying in June 2008. They had three children.

Unilateral Assets and Short Marriages after E v L – Another White Leopard?

Unilateral Assets and Short Marriages after E v L – Another White Leopard?

It was made clear by the Court of Appeal in Miller v Miller [2005] EWCA Civ 984, [2006] 1 FLR 151 that none of the pre-White v White [2000] UKHL 54, [2000] 2 FLR 981 so-called short marriage cases[[1]] had survived the change in judicial approach that White heralded.

Pensions on Divorce – Standard Family Order Template and Short Marriages

Pensions on Divorce – Standard Family Order Template and Short Marriages

This article deals with two points. The first relates to the publication of the new pension sharing order (PSO) template at paragraph number 95 in the Standard Family Orders suite. The second relates to the issue of short marriages in the context of pensions on divorce. The new Standard Family

Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2022] EWFC 119

Judgment date: 17 October 2022 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/119 Mostyn J. W’s application for (i) the recission of decree nisi, (ii) the dismissal of the underlying divorce petition and (iii) the set aside of the financial order made subsequent to that. The parties had been