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A Mother v A Father (Re Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989) [2024] EWFC 63
Judgment date: 19 February 2024
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/63.html
HHJ Vincent. Schedule 1 matter determined in light of the child’s needs and the strict remit of Schedule 1, notwithstanding the significant disparity between the parents’ respective economic positions and standards of living.
SP v QR [2024] EWFC 57 (B)
Judgment date: 12 March 2024
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/57.html
HHJ Hess. Schedule 1 application with a ‘more modest’ asset base regarding residence in a property subject to a mortgage and ‘top-up’ maintenance for a disabled child.
Background
The applicant mother was 37 years
C v D (No 2) (2007 Hague Convention) [2024] EWFC 36
Judgment date: 27 February 2024
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/36
MacDonald J underlines the limited circumstances in which the registration of a maintenance order pursuant to the Hague Convention 2007 may be appealed successfully.
The judgment marks the latest, and hopefully final, saga in an epic of
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