FRJ stage

Needs

NO v PQ [2023] EWFC 36

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/36 Mr Recorder Rhys Taylor. Agreement between the parties upheld notwithstanding H’s predicament of real need – ‘an unusual outcome … but justified as the only fair one on the facts’; [8]. W aged 60 and H aged 58, long marriage, adult children. Parties

Kaur v Singh and Others [2023] EWHC 304 (Fam)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/304.html Peel J. Claim under the Inheritance Act 1975 for reasonable financial provision from her deceased husband under Part 8 of the CPR. The claim was undefended. The claimant sought half of the estate which she estimated at £995,000.

KM v CV [2022] EWFC 174

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/174 HHJ Robinson. Case concerning pensions where neither party had any capital. FMH had been sold with £10,000 left after payment of mortgage and costs. Case concerned treatment of W’s two police pensions. Pension expert, Mr Nobbs, concluded equalisation of income

DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 6

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/6 HHJ Madeleine Reardon. Finding of economic abuse and consideration of whether it met the level of s 25 conduct. Parties aged 49 (W) and 59 (H), married 1994, separated 2018, children adults. Marriage void for W’s bigamy, but with no findings

HD v WB [2023] EWFC 2

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/2.html Peel J. Financial remedy proceedings concerning the circumstances surrounding a PNA and the weight, if any, to be attached to it. Realisable assets almost entirely in W’s name exceeded £43m. H sought for the PNA to be completely

ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 128

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/128 Moor J. H was a highly successful retired businessman. He married W in 2005 in what was an entirely conventional second marriage. Alongside a significant portfolio of assets, H owned a sheep and cattle farm in Country C, named 'BT'

CMX v EJX (French Marriage Contract) [2020] EWFC 136

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2022/136 Moor J. The Husband (‘H’) was a 56 year old French national and Chairman of Industrial Investment Banking at bank. The Wife (‘W’) was French/Lebanese/British, 54 years old and had a successful career in the bottled water industry. They lived