FRJ stage

Post-Separation Accrual

QW v GH [2025] EWFC 19 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/19 DJ Worthley. Final hearing in a financial relief claim brought by W 8 years after the parties separated. Introduction W (48) and H (52) separated in February 2015 after 22 years of marriage and four children together. The final divorce order

Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?

Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?

In Rossi v Rossi [2007] 1 FLR 790 Nicholas Mostyn QC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) adopted a formulaic approach in relation to ‘a post-separation bonus or other earned income’. He stated at [24.4] that ‘[a]lthough there is an element of arbitrariness’ he would not allow

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-September 2023 to mid-January 2024)

Financial Remedies Case Round-Up (Mid-September 2023 to mid-January 2024)

Post-separation accrual The judgments published within the autumn period fall sharply at each end of the spectrum of wealth. A number of cases involving significant assets have involved arguments around post-separation accrual, perhaps trickling through as a result of Moor J’s decision in DR v UG [2023] EWFC 68.

FT v JT [2023] EWFC 250

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2023/250 Recorder Nicholas Allen KC. Final hearing to determine the date of separation and accordingly the extent of post-separation endeavour. The parties met in February 2007 and cohabited before marrying in June 2008. They had three children. H left the FMH on

GA v EL [2023] EWFC 206

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/206.html Stephen Trowell KC as deputy High Court judge. Final hearing where the sole issue was how to divide proceeds of sale of a business. An earlier Daniels v Walker application in this case is reported here. The parties cohabited

GA v EL [2023] EWFC 187

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2023/187.html Peel J. Daniels v Walker application made by the Wife ('W') at a Pre-Trial Review in financial remedy proceedings. Background * The parties married in 2007 and separated in November 2019. They are in their early 50s and