FRJ stage

Needs

HW v WB (Financial Remedies; Treatment of Post-nuptial Agreement) [2024] EWFC 328 (B)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/328.html DJ Phillips. Final hearing where the issues concerned whether a post-nuptial agreement was binding on the parties and fair. The parties were married for 9 years and had one child, 10, and, W’s older child, 19, who was

KD v SD [2024] EWFC 334 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/334 District Judge Hatvany. Final hearing in a needs case concerning a relatively short marriage where the breadwinner and main financial contributor is now also the primary carer for the children. This case concerned a short marriage of five years with four

RN v TT [2024] EWFC 264 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/264 HHJ Hess. Facts W (51) and H (49) cohabited in a flat in W’s sole name from late 2003 and married in 2004. W was a GP. H was an occasional painter and decorator but had not worked for many

What Is a ‘Predicament of Real Need’?

What Is a ‘Predicament of Real Need’?

In Radmacher (Formerly Granatino) v Granatino [2010] 2 FLR 1900 at [81] Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers said that of the three strands identified in White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 and Miller/McFarlane [2006] 1 FLR 1186 it was needs and compensation which could most readily render it

Impact of Conduct on Needs

Impact of Conduct on Needs

Introduction In exercising its powers in financial remedy proceedings, the court is required to have regard to the ‘conduct of each of the parties if that conduct is such that it would in the opinion of the court be inequitable to disregard it’: s 25(2)(g) Matrimonial Causes Act