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A party to financial remedy proceedings has failed to file and serve their Form E. They have been served with the relevant directions order endorsed with a penal notice and the time for compliance has expired. What further options exist for enforcing their compliance? How might the court proceed if the offending party fails to file and serve a Form E in the face of further orders?
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The parties entered into a financial remedy order by consent which included an undertaking by one party to use their best endeavours to secure the other party’s release from the joint mortgage, which they have failed to comply with many years after the order was made. The order did not include an order for sale, can the other party apply to enforce the undertaking and/or seek an order for sale?
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In private law Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989) proceedings, a ChA 1989, s 7 report was filed by Cafcass. At the first hearing dispute resolution appointment, one party did not agree with the section 7 report recommendations and requested the listing of a final contested hearing. The judge refused the request and made a final child arrangements order under ChA 1989, s 8. On what basis can a judge refuse to list a final hearing?
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Where a respondent to a divorce makes an application on Form D11 for an order dismissing the divorce application on the basis that the respondent claims that the parties have reconciled and the applicant opposes that application and wishes to proceed with an application for a conditional order, how will the court approach the applications?
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In financial remedy proceedings, will the court make a lump sum order against a party who has taken money from a child’s bank account for their own use?
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Case management order

A draft case management order must be discussed and prepared by the advocates and filed with the court (by the authority'>local authority advocate) no later than 11 am on the day before a case management hearing, further case management hearing or issues resolution hearing.

Crystallisation

Refers to commencement of pension benefit payments from all or part of a pension scheme, as income and/or lump sum. Crystallising defined contribution benefits can trigger the money purchase annual allowance.

Fast-track (shortened) financial remedy procedure

The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2018, SI 2018/440 amended FPR 2010 with effect from 4 June 2018, primarily introducing new provisions as to ‘fast-track’ and ‘standard’ procedures in relation to applications for a financial remedy. The ‘fast-track’ provisions are expanded to cover a wider range of applications, including where the application relates, inter alia, to an application for a periodical payments order only under Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973), Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA 2004) or Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989). Prior to 4 June 2018, the accelerated/shortened procedure applied more widely to an application for the variation of an order for a financial remedy, while the fast-track procedure is now limited to an application for variation of an order for periodical payments only (with exceptions). The procedure for what was previously referred to as the shortened or accelerated procedure, and is now the ‘fast-track’ procedure, is also partially amended. The changes apply only to proceedings issued on or after 4 June 2018.
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