Ensuring fair financial outcomes in family law cases requires a thorough understanding of the latest statutory guidelines and case law developments. This resource offers up-to-date practical tips and insights, helping practitioners effectively advise and represent their clients in matters of financial provision. Whether dealing with maintenance, lump sum payments, or property division, we provide the essential tools to navigate these financial aspects with confidence and precision.
Family analysis: A 75% costs order made against the father by Nicholas Allen KC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge) in long-running private law...
Family analysis: Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), Practice Direction (PD) Update No 1 of 2026 has been issued setting out amendments to several...
Family analysis: In the first instance decision in these proceedings, the wife successfully applied to set aside a financial remedy order made in...
This week's edition of the Family weekly highlights includes analyses of two Court of Appeal decisions considering reliance on the evidence of an...
Procedure—Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989This Practice Note sets out the procedural requirements in relation to an application under Schedule 1 to...
Applications under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997This Practice Note explains the six criminal offences that may be committed under the...
Striking out a statement of caseThis Practice Note explains the court's power to strike out a statement of case. It summarises the grounds on which a...
The grounds on which a marriage is voidA void marriage is one that will be treated by the court as never having taken place. The grounds on which a...
Financial proceedings—conduct of the partiesConduct is a specific factor to be taken into account under section 25(2)(g) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) and Schedule 5, Part 5 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (CPA 2004) at CPA 2004, Sch 5 Pt 5, para 21(2)(g), if that conduct is such
Capitalised maintenance—Duxbury calculationsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the basis and use of Duxbury calculations in relation to the calculation of capitalised spousal or civil partner maintenance/periodical payments, within financial remedy proceedings, including the assumptions made,
The duty of disclosure in financial proceedingsThis Practice Note provides guidance on the ongoing duty of full and frank disclosure in financial proceedings, together with the possible consequences of any breach of duty, including the court drawing adverse inferences. It also considers the Supreme
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some
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