VP v SP [2025] EWFC 447 (B)
Deputy District Judge Cassidy Hope. Judgment in financial remedy proceedings, addressing needs-based distribution where one party is the primary carer of a disabled adult child.
Housing Need
A v N [2025] EWFC 371 (B)
Recorder Christopher Stirling. Final hearing in FR proceedings involving an intervener claim from W's elderly mother. Guidance given as to how the representations of third parties should be balanced against the needs of the spouses in accordance with s 24A(6) of the MCA 1973.
A v N [2025] EWFC 371 (B)
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/371
JB v RB [2025] EWFC 194 (B)
District Judge Akers. This case involved final financial remedy proceedings between the Wife and the Husband following the breakdown of a long marriage. The dispute centred on the division of the former family home, spousal maintenance, and the classification of certain debts as ‘soft loans’.
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Introduction
This article reviews how solicitors currently fulfil the filing requirements of the 2022 Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge Level (the Efficiency Statement). It documents the specific challenges of producing indicative borrowing capacity material, going on to
MNV v CNV [2025] EWFC 176 (B)
Judgment date: 19 June 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/176
DDJ Bradshaw. Drastic change in personal circumstances results in add-back in small money case.
Overview
DDJ Bradshaw considered arguments relating to the add-back of dissipated assets in a modest FR case. Shortly after separation the husband
TA v SB [2025] EWFC 61 (B)
Judgment date: 05 March 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/61
HHJ Muzaffer. The only question the court was concerned with was what should happen to the jointly-owned FMH. However, this case illustrates the difficulties arising when one party lacks capacity to litigate and is dependent on