Dr Martina Van der Leij summarises a judgment for Family Law Week about a financial remedies application (the 1st in the Financial Remedies Court at the Central Family Court to involve a QLR - qualified legal representative). The case resulted in the lump sum and pension-sharing applications being kept open to ensure the husband transferred the former matrimonial home and contents.
Lily Cooke summarises a judgment for Family Law Week where a husband applied to vary a lump sum payment owed to the wife (following a final order made by consent in December 2018) and the wife successfully cross-applied to strike out the variation application.
Lauren Suding summarises a judgment for Family Law Week about a wife who succeeded in getting a stay lifted on her English divorce and financial remedy proceedings. The Deputy High Court Judge refused to recognise the Indonesian court-ordered divorce that the husband had applied for because he had misled the court. The marriage was still valid in England, and the wife’s applications would be heard by the English court.
Lauren Suding summarises the judgment in BF v LE [2023] EWHC 2009 (Fam) for Family Law Week. The High Court refused the wife's application to appeal and to set aside the final order in financial remedies proceedings.
Lauren Suding summarises judgment in Bogolyubova v Bogolyubov & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 547 for Family Law Week. The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against a High Court decision to adjourn a wife's financial remedies application while Chancery fraud proceedings are ongoing against her husband.
Dr Martina van der Leij summarises judgment in a financial remedy case SS v RS for Family Law Week. The court found there could be no freestanding claim for economic loss. Also it had no power to award compensation for alleged financial detriment arising from a failure to release the husband from the mortgage on the matrimonial home transferred to the wife.
Lily Cooke summarises the judgment in Z (No 4) (Schedule 1 award) [2023] EWFC 25 for Family Law Week about an application under s15 and Sch 1 of the Children Act 1989 concerning a child with a neurodevelopmental genetic disorder.
The recent Court of Appeal decision in Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 is a reminder of how the law adapts to changes in technology. It is also a reminder of how apparently informal communication by email can have profound implications.