FRJ stage

Matrimonialisation

RM v WP [2024] EWFC 191 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/191 HHJ Hess. Modest asset case exploring whether a departure from equality is appropriate where there were four consecutive family homes during the marriage, all of which were acquired by one party prior to the marriage. Facts The parties began cohabiting in

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

ST v AR [2025] EWFC 4

The Husband is 70. The Wife is 51. They have a 9-year-old daughter. They cohabited from February 2003 and in early 2012 separated due to the wife’s affair. In August 2012 – c.9 months later – they reunited. They married on 8 October 2012. In November 2020 the parties relocated

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