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Child Maintenance

Child Maintenance by the Back Door? Mortgages and Schedule 1 Children Act 1989

Child Maintenance by the Back Door? Mortgages and Schedule 1 Children Act 1989

Mortgages and Sch 1 Children Act 1989 applications Following the successful appeal of the arbitral award in LT v ZU [2023] EWFC 179, the decision has been reversed in the further appeal to the High Court ([2024] EWHC 778 (Fam)). LT v ZU is significant for two reasons as it

TK v LK [2024] EWFC 71

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/71.html Mr Nicholas Allen KC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge). Summary Enormously helpful review of Sch 1 authorities re (i) the jurisdiction to make a Schedule 1 award after a clean break in divorce proceedings, (ii) the relevance

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

C v D (No 2) (2007 Hague Convention) [2024] EWFC 36

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/36 MacDonald J underlines the limited circumstances in which the registration of a maintenance order pursuant to the Hague Convention 2007 may be appealed successfully. The judgment marks the latest, and hopefully final, saga in an epic of litigation spanning nine years, including

Y v Z [2024] EWFC 4

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/4.html Peel J’s determination of M’s Schedule 1 application against F, who is a member of a Middle Eastern royal family. M’s application for financial provision under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 concerned two children,

Galbraith-Marten v De Renée [2023] EWFC 253

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/253.html Cobb J. Application of James v Seymour formula for child maintenance under Sch 1 in this long-running case. The substantial history of this extremely long-running case is set out in prior decisions. Briefly, this was a very short marriage

Dickson v Rennie: Right or Wrong

Dickson v Rennie: Right or Wrong

The judgment of Holman J in Dickson v Rennie [2015] 2 FLR 978 records that at the final hearing of the mother’s Schedule 1 application in June/July 2007 District Judge Walker had ordered inter alia long-term periodical payments for the child of £41,200 pa (or £3,433