Cases

Spousal Maintenance (Quantum) Agreements Needs

AH v BH [2024] EWFC 125

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/125 Peel J final hearing judgment in high-net-worth FR case in which the parties had entered into a pre-nuptial agreement which purported to ‘severely limit W’s financial remedy claims in her own right and the financial needs of W and the children’

Freezing Injunctions Land Registration Act 2002 Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications Legal Services Payment Orders

JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam)

Judgment date: 23 May 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2024/1442.html Cobb J. The case concerned four applications by the mother for an LSPO to cover the costs of her legal representation in ongoing proceedings under Schedule 1 (where she sought financial provision for the

Freezing Injunctions Land Registration Act 2002 Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications Legal Services Payment Orders

JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2024/1442.html Cobb J. The case concerned four applications by the mother for an LSPO to cover the costs of her legal representation in ongoing proceedings under Schedule 1 (where she sought financial provision for the six-year old child) and s

Pensions on Divorce Loans Joinder of Third Parties Debts

SP v AL & Ors (by their Litigation Friend FL) [2024] EWFC 72 (B)

Judgment date: 08 March 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/72.html HHJ Hess. Final Hearing of W’s application for financial remedy, with H’s children from a previous marriage intervening via their mother as their litigation friend. Significant comments re pension sharing and apportionment.

Pensions on Divorce Loans Joinder of Third Parties Debts

SP v AL & Ors (by their Litigation Friend FL) [2024] EWFC 72 (B)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/72.html HHJ Hess. Final Hearing of W’s application for financial remedy, with H’s children from a previous marriage intervening via their mother as their litigation friend. Significant comments re pension sharing and apportionment. Background and relationship; [9], [14]

Forum Conveniens divorce Jurisdiction

SK v RR [2024] EWHC 1418 (Fam)

Judgment date: 01 May 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2024/1418.html HHJ Moradifar. The primary issue in this case was forum and convenience, which arose from two sets of divorce proceedings. W joined H in the UK after marriage. H issued divorce proceedings in India

Forum Conveniens divorce Jurisdiction

SK v RR [2024] EWHC 1418 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2024/1418.html HHJ Moradifar. The primary issue in this case was forum and convenience, which arose from two sets of divorce proceedings. W joined H in the UK after marriage. H issued divorce proceedings in India first and W issued eight