FRJ stage

Maintenance Pending Suit

PM v RM [2025] EWFC 11

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/11 Mr Justin Warshaw KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge. Application for maintenance pending suit, a legal services payment order and an injunction in a high value financial remedy case. Facts W (45) and H (68) began cohabiting in 2015, moved

SM v BA (Legal Services Payment Order) [2025] EWFC 7

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2025/7 Nicholas Allen KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge. Facts Application for a legal services payment order within high net worth financial remedy proceedings. W’s LSPO application was for H to meet the costs of £241,269 in unpaid invoices

HA v EN [2025] EWHC 48 (Fam)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2025/48 Deputy High Court Judge Richard Todd KC. Application by W for maintenance pending suit (MPS) and a legal services payment order (LSPO) in protracted financial remedy proceedings. Background W, aged 40 and born in Russia, had been a British citizen since

KV v KV [2024] EWFC 165

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/165 Peel J. Application by W for (i) Maintenance Pending Suit (MPS) pursuant to s 22 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and (ii) a Legal Services Payment Order (LSPO) pursuant to s 22ZA of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. The parties began

LI v FT (Maintenance Pending Suit) [2024] EWFC 342 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/342 DDJ Harrop. Decision on costs after an MPS application with no clear winner. The court was dismayed by what had been incurred in legal fees contesting the MPS application. W incurred £27,000 in a little over a month and H

DH v RH (No 2) (Variation of Interim Arrangements) [2023] EWFC 210

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/210.html MacDonald J. See Rebekah Batt’s summary of W’s earlier LSPO and MPS applications for relevant background: DR v RH [2023] EWFC 111. H’s applications 1. To discharge a freezing order made in respect of H’s

HAT v LAT [2023] EWFC 162

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/162.html Peel J. Application by W for MPS and LSPO where the parties had entered into and implemented a Deed of Separation (‘the Deed’) 30 years ago. The Deed had not been converted into a court order. The parties were