FRJ stage

Jurisdiction

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

VS v KS [2023] EWHC 3475 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/3475.html Arbuthnot J. H’s application for a stay of the financial remedy proceedings in favour of proceedings in Monaco. Background W and H were both born in Russia and during their relationship spent time in London, Monaco and the

MS v FS (No. 3) [2023] EWFC 245 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2023/245 DDJ Mehta. This was a final hearing in a financial remedy application by H where arguments surrounding jurisdiction following remarriage, and conduct, were raised. The parties were 53 (H) and 43 (W) years old. They were married for eight years. The

Mahtani v Mahtani [2023] EWHC 2988 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/2988 Mr James Ewins KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Application by W for an order under s 51(3) of the Family Law Act 1986, for non-recognition of the overseas divorce obtained by H in Indonesia and for a

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

A Wife v A Husband [2023] EWFC 200

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/200.html HHJ Willans. Financial remedy application involving a single issue, namely, what were W’s housing needs and how should those needs be funded. There had been a jurisdictional dispute between Italy and England, with H arguing that all matters

Lazaros Panagiotis Xanthopoulos v Alla Alexsandrovna Rakshina [2023] EWFC 158

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/158 Peel J granted the husband’s application for a legal services payment order to allow him to pursue his appeal in this long-running case. The husband had made a successful application to Moylan LJ for permission to appeal the order of Cohen