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Gwynfor Evans

Gwynfor Evans

Gwynfor is a barrister at The 36 Group and a member of both the Chancery Bar Association and the Family Law Bar Association. He specialises in financi...

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

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

What happens if the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has determined that a non-resident parent (NRP) is required to pay child maintenance to the parent-with-care (PWC), but payments are also being made towards the mortgage secured on the property in which PWC still lives with the qualifying child/children (QC)? Does

Tech Corner: Twenty Simple Excel Tips for Financial Remedy Practitioners

Tech Corner: Twenty Simple Excel Tips for Financial Remedy Practitioners

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program for presenting formatted numbers and for performing calculations on them. It also offers basic text-editing for labelling and for explaining any figures and calculations. The spreadsheet consists of thousands of ‘cells’. A cell may contain text, numbers, dates, formulas, calculations, or nothing. Each cell

Non-disclosure, Occupation Orders and Transfers of Tenancy

Non-disclosure, Occupation Orders and Transfers of Tenancy

When a couple separates, either party may be able to apply for one or both of two powerful property-focused remedies. The first is an occupation order. This regulates occupation of a family home, permitting (perhaps with conditions) occupation by one or both parties and restricting, prohibiting and perhaps terminating occupation

Oil on Troubled Waters

Oil on Troubled Waters

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 is another dispute in the seemingly never-ending conveyor-belt of cases about real ownership of a home. The property – Picnic House – (the litigation being anything but a picnic) was upon its acquisition in 2007 legally and beneficially owned by Lee Hudson (LH) and Jayne

Zooming In: Video Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction

Zooming In: Video Evidence from Outside the Jurisdiction

During the COVID-19 pandemic video-conference hearings became common-place for family lawyers, as for many other lawyers. HMCTS rolled out a Cloud Video Platform, and many courts used Skype for Business and latterly (a swiftly modernised) Microsoft Teams as platforms upon which hearings, including final hearings, could be conducted. But there

Schedule 1 Remedies for the Older Child

Schedule 1 Remedies for the Older Child

HHJ Hess recently handed down a helpful decision as to jurisdiction under Schedule 1 for an adult child in J & K v L (Schedule 1: Older Children) [2021] EWFC B104. While this decision is non-binding,[[1]] the judgment offers an exceptionally lucid and helpful analysis of existing case law,

The ES2 – Amendments

The ES2 – Amendments

The new asset schedule in the form of the ES2 Excel spreadsheet has helped focus practitioners’ minds, and save time at court, since its introduction in January 2022. However, there have been some minor glitches which could benefit from the odd tweak. With that in mind, Gwynfor Evans of 36