FRJ stage

Agreements

HAT v LAT [2023] EWFC 162

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/162.html Peel J. Application by W for MPS and LSPO where the parties had entered into and implemented a Deed of Separation (‘the Deed’) 30 years ago. The Deed had not been converted into a court order. The parties were

DT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (CSM) [2023] UKUT 175 (AAC)

https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC/2023/175.html Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Rowland. Appeal against decision of First-tier Tribunal regarding the correct income figure upon which to base a Child Maintenance calculation. Appeal allowed. Legal framework * Decisions under the ‘2012 scheme’ are based on a payer’s

Backstrom v Wennberg [2023] EWFC 79

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/79 Mr L. Samuels KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge. The court heard cross applications for financial remedies orders. W issued a notice that H show cause why he should not be held to their pre- and post-marital agreements. H failed

NO v PQ [2023] EWFC 36

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/36 Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. Agreement between the parties upheld notwithstanding H’s predicament of real need – ‘an unusual outcome … but justified as the only fair one on the facts’; [8]. W aged 60 and H aged 58, long marriage, adult children. Parties

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

HD v WB [2023] EWFC 2

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/2.html Peel J. Financial remedy proceedings concerning the circumstances surrounding a PNA and the weight, if any, to be attached to it. Realisable assets almost entirely in W’s name exceeded £43m. H sought for the PNA to be completely