FRJ stage

Decree Nisi/Decree Final

Williams v Williams [2024] EWHC 733 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/733 Sir Andrew McFarlane P. Erroneous application for a final order of divorce made by the solicitors for the applicant wife, in absence of the instruction or authority of their client. Background The parties were married for 22 years. W applied for

Non-matrimonial Assets – The New ‘Conduct’?

Non-matrimonial Assets – The New ‘Conduct’?

In the recent decision of RN v DA [2023] EWFC 255 (HHJ Vincent – 30 November 2023) the court was faced with an application by a wife to rescind a decree nisi that had been pronounced in 2012. The husband, conversely, had applied for the decree to be made absolute. The

RN v DA (Divorce – Rescission of Decree Nisi) [2023] EWFC 255

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/255.html HHJ Vincent. Final Hearing of cross-applications to either grant a decree absolute out of time or rescind the decree nisi. Addendum judgment on anonymisation. HHJ Vincent. Divorce proceedings led to decree Nisi being pronounced on 18 September 2012. Neither