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ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 128

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/128 Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'

Stacey v McNicholas [2022] EWHC 278 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2022/278 Moor J. Under Schedule 1, F had been ordered to pay a lump sum of £350,000 to the M to act as a housing fund, in addition to a sum of £50,000 on standard Schedule 1 terms. F was

Have We Been Getting It Wrong for the Past 75 Years? Privacy, Secrecy and the Financial Remedies Court

Have We Been Getting It Wrong for the Past 75 Years? Privacy, Secrecy and the Financial Remedies Court

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley starts with one of the most celebrated opening lines in literature: ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ Historically, the same could be said of the Family Division, where a husband or wife could obtain a Mareva injunction, or pierce

Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 135

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/135 Mostyn J. Ultra high net worth financial remedies where there there was a 2014 postnuptial agreement (a 2012 prenup modified after marriage). H was a billionaire real estate developer and parties ‘lived a billionaire lifestyle’. PNA created separate property and waiver of

Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 45

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/45 Mostyn J. W’s application for enforcement of interim maintenance order (maintenance decision summarised here). H had negligently failed to pay wages of staff at the parties’ house in Antibes, such payments being part of the interim order. While court did not

J v H [2022] EWFC 133

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/133 Peel J. H’s application for a freezing injunction. Reference to Mostyn J’s guidance from UL v BK and the importance of compliance with the pre-requisites set out in that case. H’s initial application was essentially without notice as short,

CMX v EJX (French Marriage Contract) [2020] EWFC 136

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/136 Moor J. The Husband (‘H’) was a 56 year old French national and Chairman of Industrial Investment Banking at bank. The Wife (‘W’) was French/Lebanese/British, 54 years old and had a successful career in the bottled water industry. They lived