N v F (Financial Orders: Pre-Acquired Wealth) [2011] EWHC 586 (Fam)

‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown with Ivy never sere I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude And with forc’d fingers rude.’ When studying for my A level in English literature I never quite worked out who Myrtle Brown was, nor

‘The beleaguered Judge looked from farming case to financial remedy case, and from financial remedy case to farming case, and from farming case to financial remedy case again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’ In an area of law that has many dedicated sub-genres, few are

Of dogs and divorce: why treating pets as chattels is an anachronism. This is Ernest, our beloved English bull terrier. According to English law he has the same status as the chaise longue upon which he is performing his Kate Winslet impersonation. How can this be right? How can he

Late last month, Baroness Deech brought a motion in the House of Lords, ‘That this House takes note of the law relating to prenuptial agreements’. The debate came against the backdrop of Baroness Deech having (of course) long pursued financial remedies reform through her Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill. She has

This is sometimes the forgotten tax on divorce. Maybe this is fair enough as there is a pretty clear exemption in tax law that states that stamp duty land tax (SDLT) will not apply to transfers pursuant to divorce. However, the last few years have seen the introduction of two