This Practice Note sets out the circumstances in which the court may make a lump sum order by way of capitalised maintenance on an application for the variation of a...
The basis of Duxbury calculations A Duxbury calculation is an actuarial calculation designed to identify the capital sum required to meet a periodical payment requirement...
This document provides general guidance regarding an application to court to resolve your financial arrangements on divorce or dissolution. Your family lawyer will be...
Duty of the court to consider a clean break Although there is no presumption in favour of there being a financial clean break between parties on divorce, the court is...
This document provides general guidance regarding financial disclosure. Your family lawyer will be able to provide specific advice based on your circumstances. What is...
The court’s power to order periodical payments is contained in section 23(1)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) and Schedule 5, Part 1, para 2(1)(a) of the...
This Practice Note explains the effect that remarriage, forming a civil partnership, or cohabitation have on the ability to apply for financial orders, as well as the...
Care should be taken when drafting the terms of a periodical payments order to ensure that it reflects either the agreement reached, where it is to be set out in a...
A means of payment order (MPO) is an order requiring the payer of a 'qualifying periodical maintenance order' to make payments by a particular method or an order that an...
The court’s power to vary orders is set out in section 31 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) and in Schedule 5 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA 2004),...
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Guidance has been issued, including by the President of the Family Division, regarding all proceedings in the Family Court in England and Wales...
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 document provides general guidance regarding an application to the court for maintenance on divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership. Your family lawyer will be...