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Quantifying Periodical Payments by Reference to the Needs Principle: Surveying the Wood Not the Trees

Quantifying Periodical Payments by Reference to the Needs Principle: Surveying the Wood Not the Trees

Tensions between competing propositions in financial remedy cases are not unusual. For example in Re P (Child: Financial Provision) [2003] 2 FLR 865 Thorpe LJ at [48] referred in the context of CA 1989 Schedule 1 to: ‘an inevitable tension between the two propositions, both correct in law, first that

SP v QR [2024] EWFC 57 (B)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/57.html HHJ Hess. Schedule 1 application with a ‘more modest’ asset base regarding residence in a property subject to a mortgage and ‘top-up’ maintenance for a disabled child. Background The applicant mother was 37 years old and had paused a

BL v OR [2023] EWFC 229 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/229.html Sir Jonathan Cohen. Final hearing involving a prenuptial agreement in circumstances where W had transferred her property, which amounted to W parting with the bulk of her assets. H was a wealthy man, and it was important to him

LMZ v AMZ [2024] EWFC 28

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/28 Moor J. A striking age difference, 48 years between the parties, gives rise to a strong needs-based claim. Background * Both parties were born in Iraq and married in September 1999. At that time, H was 68 and W was 20. By final

TYB v CAR (Non-Disclosure) [2023] EWFC 261 (B)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/261.html DDJ Hodson. What does the court do with the non-discloser? Final hearing involving a short marriage with a child almost four. This was a needs case. H admitted earnings of £60,000 pcm, spending at least £35,000 pcm

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

Wife v Husband [2023] EWFC 273 (B)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/273.html DJ Masters. Small money case heard by a district judge. Final hearing where H dissipated inheritance received during the marriage. Facts H (49) and W (55). The parties had one son (20). Tragically, the judgment records that the stress