Needs

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

The Husband is 70. The Wife is 51. They have a 9-year-old daughter. They cohabited from February 2003 and in early 2012 separated due to the wife’s affair. In August 2012 – c.9 months later – they reunited. They married on 8 October 2012. In November 2020 the parties relocated

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

Judgment date: 09 January 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/4 HHJ Vincent (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Final hearing in a high-value case. Court making findings on whether H’s large inheritance had been matrimonialised, W’s entitlement to a second home, and who should

V v V [2024] EWFC 380 (B)

Judgment date: 19 December 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/380 HHJ Booth. Appeal from a final order in a modest asset case, in which the court was tasked with balancing the needs of a party suffering from a serious disability and the needs of the primary

EC v JC [2024] EWFC 175 (B)

Judgment date: 13 June 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/175.html DJ Hatvany. Final financial remedies hearing in a where the assets were modest. The parties were married for 11 years and had twin boys aged 9. An unfortunate feature of this case was that

HW v WB (Financial Remedies; Treatment of Post-nuptial Agreement) [2024] EWFC 328 (B)

Judgment date: 05 July 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/328.html DJ Phillips. Final hearing where the issues concerned whether a post-nuptial agreement was binding on the parties and fair. The parties were married for 9 years and had one child, 10, and, W’s

KD v SD [2024] EWFC 334 (B)

Judgment date: 18 November 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/334 District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing in a needs case concerning a relatively short marriage where the breadwinner and main financial contributor is now also the primary carer for the children. This case concerned a short marriage