Family Law Cases
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B v S (Rev 2) [2012] EWHC 265 (Fam) (17 February 2012)  -  A Wife was awarded 3.34m in ancillary relief proceedings. The court determining that the sharing principle was applicable notwithstanding the couple having married in Catalonia under a separate property regime. ... more...
Edgerton v Edgerton & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 181 (24 February 2012)  -  The CA considered a very unusual course of events in ancillary relief where the question of the interests of a third party had been settled by consent between the Husband and the Third party in an order made in the Chancery division. The court considered the inter-relation of the orders made within the... more...
S (A Child), Re [2012] UKSC 10 (14 March 2012)  -  The Supreme Court allowed a Mother's appeal against an order for the return of a child to Australia in a much anticipated Hague Convention matter. The court held that the Court of Appeal should not have substituted its decision for that of Charles J and that the decision as to the level of risk in respect... more...
Young v Young [2012] EWHC 138 (Fam) (03 February 2012)  -  The court dismissed a Husband's application for the return of his passport which was held by the tipstaff pending the conclusion of ancillary relief proceedings. The court considered the authorities and found the Husband to be in contempt of court and further that the Wife had a good case for a substantive... more...
Kremen v Agrest (No.11) (Financial Remedy: Non-Disclosure: Post Nuptial Agreeement) [2012] EWHC 45 (fam) (19 January 2012)  -  The court conducted a final hearing in this long running litigation in the absence of the Husband, who did not attend. The court order a lump sum of £12.5m to the wife (£8.3m constituting maintenance). Funds held in court were released to the Wife (save for a portion held back on account of previous... more...
Galloway v Goldstein [2012] EWHC 60 (Fam) (16 January 2012)  -  The court granted a declaration that a marriage ceremony undertaken in the UK had no legal effect as the parties had previously undergone a valid marriage ceremony in Connecticut, US. The court deplored the practice of participating in two ostensibly valid ceremonies for social reasons. ... more...
Hutchings-Whelan v Hutchings [2012] EWCA Civ 38 (26 January 2012)  -  The CA refused a Husband's appeal against an order in Ancillary Relief proceedings. Permission had been granted to appeal on specific 'arithmetical' points. the CA however held that the Husband's conduct throughout 10 years of litigation and the trial itself had left the trial judge in the position of... more...
V v V [2011] EWHC 3230 (Fam) (21 December 2011)  -  The court allowed a Husband's appeal against an ancillary relief order in which he received no Mesher charge over the Wife's property. The court considered the effect of a marriage settlement entered into by the parties prior to their marriage, the impact of Granatino and the source of the parties' assets... more...
P & L (minors) Re, [2011] EWHC 3431 (Fam) (20 December 2011)  -  The court considered a non-traditional family set up where 2 siblings lived with their biological mother and her female partner and their biological Father who had PR lived with his male partner. The court had previously found the elder child in particular to be suffering harm as a result of the lack... more...
SH v MM & Anor [2011] EWHC 3314 (Fam) (13 December 2011)  -  The court held that a Mother's arrangement of the removal of a child to Italy in breach of a PSO which had been served on her constituted a wrongful removal and that therefore the child remained habitually resident in the UK for the purposes of Brussells II Revised. A man claiming to be the child's father... more...
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