Cases Clean Breaks and Term Maintenance Variation Applications Open in Wright v Wright [2015] EWCA Civ 201 Judgment date: 11 February 2015http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2015/201.html Related P v M (Appeal: Unfair Hearing: Variation of Periodical Payments: Global Orders) [2026] EWHC 1330 (Fam) Judgment date: 3 June 2026 Harrison J allows an appeal against a final order made by HHJ Wright, which varied a previous order made by DDJ Butler, which reduced periodical payments paid to W due to a change in H’s income. ABC v XYZ (Financial Remedies: Release from Undertakings and Variation of Periodical Payments Order) [2025] EWFC 370 (B) DJ Maddison. Application by H to be released from undertakings and vary a nominal maintenance order following a significant change of circumstances. Reassessment of needs resulted in substantive joint lives provision. ABC v XYZ [2025] EWFC 370 (B) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2025/370.html Read the journal Financial Remedies Journal – 2026 Issue 2 | Summer Open in Related P v M (Appeal: Unfair Hearing: Variation of Periodical Payments: Global Orders) [2026] EWHC 1330 (Fam) Judgment date: 3 June 2026 Harrison J allows an appeal against a final order made by HHJ Wright, which varied a previous order made by DDJ Butler, which reduced periodical payments paid to W due to a change in H’s income. ABC v XYZ (Financial Remedies: Release from Undertakings and Variation of Periodical Payments Order) [2025] EWFC 370 (B) DJ Maddison. Application by H to be released from undertakings and vary a nominal maintenance order following a significant change of circumstances. Reassessment of needs resulted in substantive joint lives provision. ABC v XYZ [2025] EWFC 370 (B) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2025/370.html Latest The Case for Calderbank: A Procedural Reform Too Far? [2026] 3 FRJ 208. There were legitimate objections to a costs system in which parties could face substantial consequences for failing to predict with sufficient accuracy the outcome of a highly discretionary financial remedy exercise. But it does not follow that Calderbank itself was the problem. Small Money Cases: Managing Financial Remedies Cases Where There Is Not Enough to Go Round From possible insolvency to arguments about add-back, small money cases raise many of the same issues as big money cases yet are often the hardest fought and difficult to settle at the Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR) appointment. The difference is simply that there is not enough to go round. Selling the Goose: Orders for Sale of the Family Company [2026] 3 FRJ 194. This article considers recent authorities which suggest that forcing a sale of the family company may increasingly be contemplated by the court. is curated by The Leaders In Family Law Books & Software EXPLORE OUR PRODUCTS
P v M (Appeal: Unfair Hearing: Variation of Periodical Payments: Global Orders) [2026] EWHC 1330 (Fam) Judgment date: 3 June 2026 Harrison J allows an appeal against a final order made by HHJ Wright, which varied a previous order made by DDJ Butler, which reduced periodical payments paid to W due to a change in H’s income.
ABC v XYZ (Financial Remedies: Release from Undertakings and Variation of Periodical Payments Order) [2025] EWFC 370 (B) DJ Maddison. Application by H to be released from undertakings and vary a nominal maintenance order following a significant change of circumstances. Reassessment of needs resulted in substantive joint lives provision.
P v M (Appeal: Unfair Hearing: Variation of Periodical Payments: Global Orders) [2026] EWHC 1330 (Fam) Judgment date: 3 June 2026 Harrison J allows an appeal against a final order made by HHJ Wright, which varied a previous order made by DDJ Butler, which reduced periodical payments paid to W due to a change in H’s income.
ABC v XYZ (Financial Remedies: Release from Undertakings and Variation of Periodical Payments Order) [2025] EWFC 370 (B) DJ Maddison. Application by H to be released from undertakings and vary a nominal maintenance order following a significant change of circumstances. Reassessment of needs resulted in substantive joint lives provision.
The Case for Calderbank: A Procedural Reform Too Far? [2026] 3 FRJ 208. There were legitimate objections to a costs system in which parties could face substantial consequences for failing to predict with sufficient accuracy the outcome of a highly discretionary financial remedy exercise. But it does not follow that Calderbank itself was the problem.
Small Money Cases: Managing Financial Remedies Cases Where There Is Not Enough to Go Round From possible insolvency to arguments about add-back, small money cases raise many of the same issues as big money cases yet are often the hardest fought and difficult to settle at the Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR) appointment. The difference is simply that there is not enough to go round.
Selling the Goose: Orders for Sale of the Family Company [2026] 3 FRJ 194. This article considers recent authorities which suggest that forcing a sale of the family company may increasingly be contemplated by the court.