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Polly Morgan | Case Editor

Polly Morgan | Case Editor

Polly Morgan is the sole author of the textbook Morgan's Family Law (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2024) as well as the author of a number of Law...

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MN v AN [2023] EWHC 613 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/613.html Moor J. H’s application that W show cause why she should not be held to the terms of a 2005 (pre-Radmacher) prenuptial agreement. H’s premarital assets £32.5 million and W’s £62,000. Negotiations through leading

Teasdale v Carter and Teasdale [2023] EWHC 490 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/490 Moor J. Appeal in farming estoppel case with astronomical costs far exceeding the value of the property in question. The first respondent, Ms Carter, was the elder daughter of the appellant mother and second respondent father. During the parents’ financial remedy

Re P (Service on Parent in a Refuge) [2023] EWHC 471

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/471 McFarlane P. Guidance from President of Family Division on service of legal documents on a person thought to be living in a refuge. FPR 2010 does not address this. In this case, W was in a refuge and location and disclosure

DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 6

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/6 HHJ Madeleine Reardon. Finding of economic abuse and consideration of whether it met the level of s 25 conduct. Parties aged 49 (W) and 59 (H), married 1994, separated 2018, children adults. Marriage void for W’s bigamy, but with no findings

Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/1648.html Lewison, Andrews and Nugee LJJ. Second appeal on whether detriment remained a requirement of a constructive trust, given not mentioned in either Stack or Kernott. Unmarried couple, house in joint names. On separation, parties agreed that Ms Hathaway would

A Wife v A Husband [2022] EWFC 154

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/154.html HHJ Vincent. Consent order provided for W to receive lump sum in instalments for purpose of housing herself and the children, and spousal and child periodical payments. W relocated and sought accelerated receipt. Further consent order provided for this,

Parveen v Hussain and the Queen’s Proctor [2022] EWCA Civ 1434

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2022/1434.html Moylan, Asplin and Stuart-Smith LJJ. W was domiciled in Pakistan when her former husband pronounced talaq while in England. The talaq decree issued by a British mosque was certified by the Pakistani authorities as valid in Pakistan. W then