The Autumn 2024 Budget: A Summary of the Key Reforms for Financial Remedy Practitioners

In the Autumn Budget 2024 Rachel Reeves, our first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, set out arguably the biggest tax changes for a generation, set to raise taxes by £41bn by 2029/30 and said to be part of the Government’s plan to revitalise Britain. This article summarises the key reforms of the Budget, highlighting those which may be of particular relevance to financial remedy practitioners and their clients.

• Blog

• Jennifer Lee
• Roger Isaacs

!01/11/2024 14:58

MG v AR [2021] EWHC 3133 (Fam)16 November 2021

Mostyn J.In the first reported judgment on security for costs since the advent of the FPR, Mostyn J gives a helpful review of the applicable principles in family cases. Unlike in civil case law, he considers that the rarity of costs orders requires the co…

• Cases

• Security for costs
• Costs

• Alexandra Hampton | Assistant Case Editor

PN v SA [2025] EWFC 14123 May 2025

Cobb J. Third-largest financial remedy case in the jurisdiction’s history. The judge set aside a separation agreement entered into by W under significant emotional and psychological pressure.

• Cases

• Agreements
• Coercive Control
• Undue Influence

• Caitlin McHale

Child Maintenance and Mortgage Payments – New Guidance: LM v SSWP & NM [2024] UKUT 259 (AAC)

What happens if the Child Maintenance Service has determined that a non-resident parent is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care, but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children? Does it matter if the property is jointly owned by NRP and PWC? Will those mortgage payments reduce the amount of child maintenance?

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• Mortgages
• Child Maintenance

• Gwynfor Evans

!29/11/2024 06:00

Final Reflections on Standish: Was It All Worthwhile?

If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it – Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by, it may not have been worthwhile.

• Blog

• Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
• Matrimonialisation

• Calum Smith

!09/07/2025 10:15