FRJ stage

Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)

MacQueen v MacQueen [2024] EWFC 400 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2024/400 District Judge Ashby. Final hearing concerning an application for a final financial remedy order in proceedings concerning serious findings of non-disclosure. Facts W (34) and H (30) married in July 2016. Both parties were made bankrupt in April 2020. During the

EC v JC [2024] EWFC 175 (B)

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/175.html DJ Hatvany. Final financial remedies hearing in a where the assets were modest. The parties were married for 11 years and had twin boys aged 9. An unfortunate feature of this case was that both parties had incurred large

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

Potanina v Potanin [2021] EWCA Civ 702

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2021/702 King, David Richards and Moylan LJJ. The second in the trio of Potanina v Potanin decisions, these case summaries should be read in order. This one is the Court of Appeal decision where Lady Justice King handed down the unanimous decision,

Potanin v Potanina [2019] EWHC 2956 (Fam)

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2019/2956.html Cohen J. The first in the trio of Potanina v Potanin decisions. This one is the High Court decision where Mr Justice Cohen dismissed W’s application for leave to bring a claim under Part III of the Matrimonial

AH v BH [2024] EWFC 125

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/125 Peel J final hearing judgment in high-net-worth FR case in which the parties had entered into a pre-nuptial agreement which purported to ‘severely limit W’s financial remedy claims in her own right and the financial needs of W and the children’

D v D [2024] EWFC 76

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/76 HHJ Booth, sitting as a judge of the High Court: 25:75 division in favour of H following breakdown of second marriage and H’s substantial assets. Court considered W’s needs should be generously interpreted to overcome lack of SJE evidence