FRJ stage

Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property

V v V (Financial Remedy Hearing) [2024] EWFC 255 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/255 HHJ Willans. Three-day final financial remedy hearing involving the computation of the assets available for distribution including properties in India. This case focused on the calculation of the assets available for distribution and the approach that should be taken to some

MR v EF [2024] EWFC 144 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/144 Recorder Rhys Taylor in financial remedy proceedings makes findings in favour of the wife as to the date of separation of the parties. The parties cohabited from 1978 and married in 1980 but could not agree the date of separation. W

NM v PM [2024] EWFC 199 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/199 DDJ Nahal-Macdonald. Preliminary issues hearing in relation to interpretation of a clause in a prenuptial agreement. Parties married 2010 and separated in 2023. W is a barrister aged 58 and H is a solicitor advocate aged 69. The petition was September

Source not Title: Some First Reflections on Standish

Source not Title: Some First Reflections on Standish

On 15 and 16 November 2023, Standish v Standish came before a Court of Appeal comprising King, Moylan and Phillips LJJ. 189 days later, Moylan LJ delivered the court’s unanimous decision: Mrs Standish’s (‘W’) appeal was dismissed, and Mr Standish’s (‘H’) appeal allowed, subject to the matter

Standish – the Narrowing of ‘Matrimonialisation’

Standish – the Narrowing of ‘Matrimonialisation’

In L v L [2021] EWFC B83 His Honour Judge Booth (sitting as a judge of the High Court) stated at [26] he had been referred to the concept of ‘matrimonialisation’ but it was ‘a word that I hope will not acquire common usage’. Although not a word in the