The Costs of ‘Costs of Sale’
As part of the computation stage of financial remedy proceedings great care is taken to ascertain the accurate net value of the family home and other property owned by the parties or in which they have an interest.
Sale of Property
Grijns v Grijns & Ors [2025] EWHC 1413 (Ch)
Master Bowles (sitting in retirement). Failed proprietary estoppel claim by son who lived in his parents’ Chelsea property for over 20 years.
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
What to Do Where One Spouse Will Not Co-operate with a Court-Ordered Sale?
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/407
The recently reported case of WZ v HZ [2024] EWFC 407 (B) (1 May 2024) provides guidance on how to manage the common occurrence of one spouse holding out in the family home despite an order for sale.
Gathering the evidence
IN v CH [2024] EWFC 233
Judgment date: 08 July 2024
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/233
Mr Stephen Trowell KC. The husband and wife made competing applications for an order for sale in respect of the matrimonial home and a yacht. The court found that the wife did not have a beneficial interest
The Husband v The Wife [2024] EWFC 64 (B)
Judgment date: 15 March 2024
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/64
HHJ Willans. Needs case involving impressive parties with strong and opposing views over what has happened and what constitutes a fair outcome.
The parties had agreed: (i) a PSO in respect of H’s pension; (ii)
Aldoukhi v Abdullah [2023] EWHC 3438 (Fam)
Judgment date: 20 December 2023
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/3438.html
Moor J. Claim for damages in relation to breach of a Part III MFPA 1984 order and TLATA order made in 2021.
In 2021 Moor J made orders under Part III MFPA and TLATA