Enforcement against a company A company is a legal entity distinct from its owner and controller. The same principle applies to trust assets owned by the trustee on...
This Practice Note details initial considerations when considering the enforcement of a financial order made in family proceedings, including the applicable rules for...
Undertakings and agreements Undertakings and agreements between parties in financial proceedings are recorded in the preamble to the order where the court lacks the...
Search and recovery Where a person is required by an order under section 8 of the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989) to give up a child to another person and the court that...
A claim for a financial order is personal to the parties to the marriage and does not survive death. If either party dies before the application under the Matrimonial...
Time limits The rules of limitation that prevent a fresh action being taken on a judgment once six years have elapsed since it became enforceable do not affect the right...
Note that the single Family Court replaced the previous three tiers of court structure (family proceedings court, County Court, High Court), save that the High Court...
This Practice Note provides information about, and access to, committal standard orders issued by the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, on 30 November...
This Practice Note provides information about, and access to, enforcement standard orders issued by the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, on 30 November...
The impact that bankruptcy and divorce proceedings have on one another has been subject to several cases in both the bankruptcy and family courts. Unfortunately, it is...
