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- Appeal against decision to strike out, as an abuse of process under Part 4 of the FPR, applications for variation of child maintenance where the district judge had concluded that the matter had been settled in the US and the application were re-litigating that decision. Appeal allowed. Judgment, 03/03/2015, free
- Application to appeal against decision in financial remedy proceedings concerning treatment of inheritance and spousal maintenance. Appeal allowed but see also subsequent judgment JL v SL [2015] EWHC 360 (Fam) concerning assessment of the inheritance and post-separation accrual. Judgment, 19/02/2015, free
- Application for maintenance pending suit. W seeking not less that £270k pa and the H offering £202k. Moylan J settles for the latter partly because the wife's claims did not arise from need. Judgment, 11/02/2015, free
- Judgment in ancillary relief proceedings described by Mostyn J as not complex but "speculative, experimental and unfeasible". Judgment, 17/12/2014, free
- Here, Mr Justice Mostyn reviews his previous order which limited the wife's maintenance pending suit to child maintenance and a sum to meet her legal costs. After a single joint expert was instructed, it appears that there was a proceedings divorce entitling recognition in this jurisdiction and that the wife had a strong case for a substantive award for maintenance pending suit and a costs allowance, provided that the merits warranted such an award. Judgment, 28/04/2014, free
- A high value financial remedy case involving parties in their 60's and 70's, where W was living in England and H (reportedly exceedingly wealthy) was living in Malaya. W was seeking a further maintenance pending suit order in the region of £125,000 per month until the next hearing in 2 months time. The judge also referred to the amount of money the parties had so far spent in litigation (in the region of £1.6m) and expressed concern over the amount of court time that had been spent, and will continue to be spent, on "preliminary skirmishes, whilst squeezing out the many needy litigants who need precious court time to recover their children from abduction or seek their return from care, and other such issues". Judgment, 18/03/2014, free
- Application by H for costs orders to be set aside after a European Enforcement Order Certificate in relation to maintenance was rescinded by the German notary. Judgment, 28/02/2014, free
- Here we have the court considering the effect of a pre-nuptial agreement on an application for maintenance pending suit, interim periodical payments for a child, and legal services provision (a s.22ZA Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 order). Judgment, 18/02/2014, free
- W's application for " interim interim" financial provision for herself and for the two children of the marriage, to endure until the next hearing, in February 2014. The H claimed that there had been a non-proceedings divorce in his home country and it was very uncertain that the W here would be entitled, by reason either of res judicata or estoppel, to pursue a third petition and demonstrate that the marriage had not been previously dissolved in the husband's home country. The judge decided that he should only award maintenance pending suit to relieve a real predicament of need, and in this case there was none. Child maintenance awards made but no awards were made for the W. Judgment, 20/01/2014, free
- Application for permission to appeal both the capital and maintenance elements of a financial provision judgment, but with a warning to the husband that further costs may be incurred where the assets involved were already of low value. Judgment, 18/12/2013, free