Online divorceWhere a divorce is proceeding via the online service note that while rules relating to divorce proceedings are generally to be found in...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Applications for judicial separation are relatively rare in practice. It may arise where the client has strong religious and or cultural reasons for...
This Practice Note sets out the basic principles to be applied when drafting a financial consent order including the preparation and structure of the...
The basis of Duxbury calculationsA Duxbury calculation is an actuarial calculation designed to identify the capital sum required to meet a periodical...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
Online divorceOn 6 May 2018 the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) launched its online divorce service nationwide for the public acting as litigants in person....
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in...
A decree of nullity granted after 31 July 1971 in respect of a voidable marriage operates to annul the marriage with effect from decree absolute and...
General principlesThe relevant costs provisions are set out in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, Pt 28 and FPR 2010, PD 28A....
A Calderbank offer is a settlement offer marked ‘without prejudice save as to costs’. Whether a Calderbank offer is admissible, and what weight will...
General principlesIn children proceedings the general rule that costs will follow the event does not apply. Express statutory provision is made in the...
The provisions for security for costs in Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 20.6 provide that a respondent to any application may...
This Practice Note provides guidance on the assessment of costs in family proceedings, including summary assessment and detailed assessment. It looks...
Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 28.1 provides that the court may make any order in respect of costs that it thinks just at any...
The Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955 disapply the costs provisions under CPR 44 which provide for the starting point on costs to...
General provisionsThe court may make, at any time, such order as to costs as it thinks just.By virtue of the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010),...
The costs regime in the Children Act 1989 cases disapplies the ordinary principle contained within the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR), SI 1998/3132...
The only general provision in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955 relating to withdrawal appears in FPR 2010, SI 2010/2955, 29.4,...
This Practice Note explains the principles applied in relation to costs in children proceedings (private and public) and the limited circumstances in...
On an uncontested application for a matrimonial order, the applicant may apply for their costs. Respondents may not wish to challenge the application...
CostsFamily Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 7.20(3), provides that in divorce proceedings:'If the applicant has applied for costs, the...
Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 28.1 provides as a general rule that ‘The court may at any time make such order as to costs as...
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