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Tech Corner: Twenty Simple Excel Tips for Financial Remedy Practitioners

Tech Corner: Twenty Simple Excel Tips for Financial Remedy Practitioners

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program for presenting formatted numbers and for performing calculations on them. It also offers basic text-editing for labelling and for explaining any figures and calculations. The spreadsheet consists of thousands of ‘cells’. A cell may contain text, numbers, dates, formulas, calculations, or nothing. Each cell

DR Corner: Fair Shares – Mediation Under the Microscope

DR Corner: Fair Shares – Mediation Under the Microscope

1 November 2023 saw the launch of the Fair Shares report, which presents the results of the first fully representative study of the arrangements families make on separation and divorce.[[1]] Following a bespoke survey of 2,425 individuals who had divorced in the last 5 years, the report helps

Money Corner: Financial Planning for Non-UK Resident Beneficiaries of Pension Shares

Money Corner: Financial Planning for Non-UK Resident Beneficiaries of Pension Shares

Introduction Once a pension sharing order is obtained from the courts in England and Wales, the division of pension assets between UK residents is usually straightforward. The beneficiary will typically have a pension in the UK that can receive their share. Failing this, if they don’t already have a

Book Review: Cohabitation and Trusts of Land

Book Review: Cohabitation and Trusts of Land

Elizabeth Darlington and Laura Heaton (Sweet & Maxwell, 4th edn, 2024) In the absence of a specific family law-based remedy, it is a fair comment to say that practising cohabitation law in England and Wales is more complicated in 2024 than it ever has been before. This significant publication is

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-September 2023 to mid-January 2024)

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-September 2023 to mid-January 2024)

Post-separation accrual The judgments published within the autumn period fall sharply at each end of the spectrum of wealth. A number of cases involving significant assets have involved arguments around post-separation accrual, perhaps trickling through as a result of Moor J’s decision in DR v UG [2023] EWFC 68.

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2024)

The Summary of the Summaries (Spring 2024)

Simon v Simon & Integro Funding Limited [2023] EWCA Civ 1048 (King, Moylan, Popplewell LJJ) The parties agreed an order that had the effect of depriving a litigation funder (Level) of the repayment of a loan advanced to W. Level were joined as a party, and the order was set

A Crib Sheet for those New to Financial Remedies Practice

A Crib Sheet for those New to Financial Remedies Practice

By way of an extract from Polly Morgan’s Family Law (OUP, 2nd edn, 2024), we present an aide memoire of the relevant principles and practicalities for the new financial remedies practitioner. Summary of the principles and practicalities (1) Consider ‘all the circumstances of the case’: s 25(1). (2)