TF v SF [2025] EWHC 1659 (Fam)
Mr Justin Warshaw KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Final hearing in a financial remedies matter, dealing with issues of interim provision, non-disclosure, conduct and post-separation accrual.
Post-Separation Accrual
OS v DT and Post-Separation Income: Fairness Trumps Inflexibility
In ‘Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?’ (5 February 2025), Nicholas Allen KC considered the potential impact of Waggott v Waggott [2018] 2 FLR 406 on the argument that income (or the assets or capital generated therefrom) earned in or referable to the first 12 months post-separation should
QW v GH [2025] EWFC 19 (B)
Judgment date: 31 January 2025
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/19
DJ Worthley. Final hearing in a financial relief claim brought by W 8 years after the parties separated.
Introduction
W (48) and H (52) separated in February 2015 after 22 years of marriage and four children
Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?
In Rossi v Rossi [2007] 1 FLR 790 Nicholas Mostyn QC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) adopted a formulaic approach in relation to ‘a post-separation bonus or other earned income’. He stated at [24.4] that ‘[a]lthough there is an element of arbitrariness’ he would not allow
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.
SS v ES [2023] EWFC 177
Judgment date: 13 October 2023
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/177
Sir Jonathan Cohen. W’s application for financial remedy which included aspects of pre-marital property, post-separation accrual and Wells sharing.
The parties married in 2005 with no pre-matrimonial cohabitation. They had three children aged between 12 and
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.