HA v EN [2025] EWHC 2436 (Fam)
The Hon. Richard Todd KC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge). Court varies Xydhias agreement, imposing significant contingent reduction in maintenance following change in circumstances.
Pre-Nuptial Agreements
FO v PN [2025] EWFC 327 (B)
In this judgment, HHJ Edward Hess explores the weight which should be given to pre-nuptial agreements and Deeds of Revocations where the Deed of Revocation is entered into shortly before the demise of a marriage.
The Prenup That Leaked: Entwistle v Helliwell Explained
For financial remedy lawyers, life’s certainties are death, taxes, and discovering assets the other side swore blind didn’t exist. The Court of Appeal decision in Entwistle v Helliwell [2025] EWCA Civ 1055 is a reminder that, with pre-nuptial agreements, disclosure isn’t just a polite formality.
Foreign Property Regimes and English Matrimonial Finance: Parity or Particularity?
Introduction
Since the landmark decision in Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42, [2011] 1 AC 534, English law has recognised the legitimacy of pre-nuptial agreements. As family life becomes increasingly international, the courts regularly encounter a wide variety of agreements, including those signed abroad.
The most common form of foreign
Prenups Aren’t ‘Sign and Done’: Why Reviews Matter Just as Much as the Ring
I am a big fan of prenuptial/pre-civil partnership agreements (‘prenups’) because, at the very least, both parties are forced to have really open and transparent conversations about money, finances, goals and aspirations. If you think about it, anyone looking to make marriage/civil partnership vows should do this before
Pre-Nuptial Agreements: an ‘Oven-Ready’ Solution to a Pressing Problem? A House of Lords Debate
Late last month, Baroness Deech brought a motion in the House of Lords, ‘That this House takes note of the law relating to prenuptial agreements’.
The debate came against the backdrop of Baroness Deech having (of course) long pursued financial remedies reform through her Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill. She has
SV v AV [2024] EWFC 86 (B)
Judgment date: 07 February 2024
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/86.html
DJ Ashworth. Final financial remedy hearing involving the weight to be attached to a pre-nuptial agreement, non-matrimonial and matrimonial property, and the computation of assets.
Facts
Wife (aged 42) and husband (aged 52) married