FRJ stage

Conduct

D v D (Financial Remedy Case) [2020] EWFC B24

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2020/B24.html DJ John Smart. Rare reported modest asset case. Identification of needs in a marriage that, with prior cohab, had lasted only 10 months. Parties aged 51 and 49. Modest assets, almost all brought into the marriage by H, including

VV v VV [2022] EWFC 46

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/46.html Peel J. Costs judgment following outcome of acrimonious and expensive financial remedy proceedings (summary here). W’s award included what H had paid already towards her legal costs (£400k) plus sufficient to discharge her outstanding legal costs (£237,000)

Traharne v Limb [2022] EWFC 27

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/27.html Cohen J. Final hearing in W’s financial remedies application in which argument centred on a post-nuptial agreement (PNA) entered into by the parties shortly prior to separation. W argued that she had been subjected to coercive and controlling

Baker v Baker [2022] EWFC 15

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2022/15.html Mostyn J. Application by W for maintenance pending suit following Rattan v Kuwad [2021] EWCA Civ 1. Held, court entitled to make assumptions about H’s ability to pay in face of ‘lamentable’ disclosure. Declines to allow W to

Her Royal Highness Haya Bint Al Hussein v His Highness Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum [2021] EWFC 94

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2021/94.html Moor J. High profile applications by W under Schedule 1, Part III MFPA and the Married Women’s Property Act 1882 concluded with a record-breaking award. Lump sum awarded to W of £251.5m including capitalised security costs (for

FRB v DCA [2019] EWHC 2816 (Fam)

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2019/2816.html