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Cases

Costs Tax Trusts

ES v SS [No.2] [2024] EWFC 59

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/59.html Sir Jonathan Cohen: determination as to the distribution of trust assets following a final hearing. In October 2023, the court handed down a substantive judgment in the parties’ financial remedies proceedings. The effect of the final order was H

Proprietary Estoppel

Julie Annette Merryman v Alex Raymond Merryman & Ors [2024] EWFC 58 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/58 HHJ Baddeley. Four stepchildren intervene successfully in financial remedies case in respect of four farming properties. The judgment disposes of an application made by four children (‘the children’) to intervene in financial remedies proceedings between their father (‘H’) and their step-mother

Freezing Injunctions Committal Applications and Judgment Summonses Costs Legal Services Payment Orders

Williams v Williams [2023] EWHC 2479 (Fam)

https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/committal-for-contempt-of-court-abigail-laura-williams-v-andrew-john-williams/ Moor J: H held in contempt for failing to comply with orders; sentenced to 56 days’ imprisonment, suspended for 28 days, to allow filing of sworn Form E. Background H is exceptionally wealthy with assets held overseas of more than £1bn. H failed to

Non-Qualifying Ceremony Validity of marriage Jurisdiction Locus Lex Celebrationis Void Marriage

Tousi v Gaydukova [2024] EWCA Civ 203

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2024/203 McFarlane P, Moylan and Holroyde LJJ. Are the parties to a void marriage able to apply for a transfer of tenancy as cohabitants, and does the lex loci celebrationis determine the ramifications of invalidity? Appeal from the decision of Mostyn J

Housing Need Child Maintenance Needs of a Disabled Child Costs Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications

SP v QR [2024] EWFC 57 (B)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/57.html HHJ Hess. Schedule 1 application with a ‘more modest’ asset base regarding residence in a property subject to a mortgage and ‘top-up’ maintenance for a disabled child. Background The applicant mother was 37 years old and had paused a

Housing Need Agreements Duxbury Capitalisation Needs

BL v OR [2023] EWFC 229 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/229.html Sir Jonathan Cohen. Final hearing involving a prenuptial agreement in circumstances where W had transferred her property, which amounted to W parting with the bulk of her assets. H was a wealthy man, and it was important to him

Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property TLATA Applications Trusts of Land Third Party Rights

AW v RH (Preliminary Issue: Third Party Rights), Re [2024] EWFC 54

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/54.html HHJ Willans. Dispute with third parties regarding the ownership of two properties and whether they should be treated as matrimonial property. Background The Respondent Husband and SB (the brother of the Respondent Husband) purchased a property (‘No11’) in 1983;