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Updated Guide on Pensions on Divorce for LiPs Published by Law for Life

Updated Guide on Pensions on Divorce for LiPs Published by Law for Life

In collaboration with the Pension Advisory Group, and thanks to funding from the Nuffield Foundation, Law for Life has published an updated version of its Survival guide to sorting out pensions on divorce. The new version takes into account recent case law, changes to terminology introduced by the Divorce, Dissolution

Standish – the Narrowing of ‘Matrimonialisation’

Standish – the Narrowing of ‘Matrimonialisation’

In L v L [2021] EWFC B83 His Honour Judge Booth (sitting as a judge of the High Court) stated at [26] he had been referred to the concept of ‘matrimonialisation’ but it was ‘a word that I hope will not acquire common usage’. Although not a word in the

Standish Primer in Advance of Court of Appeal Judgment

Standish Primer in Advance of Court of Appeal Judgment

How should a substantial sum of money (in this case £80m) which was partly generated before marriage but transferred to the other spouse during marriage be treated on divorce? Do those funds remain the non-marital property of the person who brought them into the marriage? Have those funds become the

Separation Agreements: Mostyn J’s Final Revolution?

Separation Agreements: Mostyn J’s Final Revolution?

Despite Mostyn J’s comment in one of his final cases, Baker v Baker [2023] EWFC 136, that it posed ‘no real issues of law’,[[1]] his judgment arguably sought to revolutionise the law on separation agreements. Whilst separation agreements have long been treated as one factor – albeit a weighty

Thoughts on Applications to Withdraw Financial Remedy Proceedings

Thoughts on Applications to Withdraw Financial Remedy Proceedings

While unusual, it is possible and occasionally necessary for an applicant in financial remedy proceedings to withdraw their application, and all other related applications. The problem that arises commonly in this unusual situation is ‘what happens next?’ It commonly happens in financial remedy proceedings that, as the proceedings evolve, certain

Limited Assets in Difficult Times

Limited Assets in Difficult Times

You will often hear lawyers and judges commenting on how difficult it is to resolve financial remedy applications where there isn’t a lot of money. Trying to make two homes out of one is sometimes impossible. There are some important things to consider when you are looking at cases

The A to Z of Financial Remedies Abbreviations

The A to Z of Financial Remedies Abbreviations

Family law and particularly financial remedy cases involve a wealth of acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations. This can be daunting particularly for trainees, junior practitioners and clients alike when they are beginning to navigate this process. The glossary below sets out some of the most common terms used by solicitors, barristers,