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Justifying costs in Children Act Proceedings- RC v FP [2025] EWFC 124
In RC v FP [2025] EWFC 124, the parties were in a relationship from 2016. In 2019, whilst pregnant with the father’s child, the mother discovered the father was in a relationship...
Court provides a helpful overview on some key principles when valuing businesses in financial remedy cases
BR v BR [2025] EWFC 88 Businesses in a financial remedy case can often prove to be a complicated and contested issue. Justice Peel has recently handed down a judgement that...
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Appealing a finding of fact- Re A (Appeal: Findings of Fact) [2025] EWHC 1279 (Fam)
This case provides important guidance on procedural and substantive aspects of private law fact find hearings. The case concerned three children, with the parties involved in...
Overriding parental responsibility: Re T-D (Children: Specific Issue Order) [2024] EWCA Civ 793
Proceedings were initially issued in the private law sphere, but care proceedings followed as a result of the children being made subject to Child Protection plans, under the...
Borrowing capacity deemed a resource that can be considered in cases for financial provision for children under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989
ZU v LT [2024] EWHC 778 (Fam) Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 (Schedule 1) makes limited financial provision for the children of unmarried parents. The courts powers to make...
Parental Responsibility for a father revoked and the child’s surname changed due to his behaviour towards the mother
Re EMP (A Child) (Re Section 8 Children Act 1989) [2024] EWFC 12 This case concerned an application made by the father to spend time with his son and the mother herself making a...
Life interest rather than lump sum? – Inheritance Act 1975 claims
Banfield v Campbell [2018] EWHC 1943 (Ch) Practitioners will be aware that brining a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family Dependants) Act 1975 (“the Inheritance Act...
Looking ahead to 2024 in family law
As we head into 2024, this article looks at some of the potential developments that may come into the family law arena. 1. Nuptial agreements Perhaps an area of family law that...
Courts, not experts, must determine whether parental alienation exists in any case
Re GB (Part 25 Application: Parental Alienation) [2023] EWFC 150 Once again the issue of parental alienation is back before our family courts. In the case of Re GB (Part 25...
Understanding Parental Alienation
Parental alienation is described by Cafcass (expert to the Family Court in private cases) as “when a child’s resistance or hostility towards one parent is not justified and is...
Finances on divorce – Judge allowed to make an order that doesn’t meet Wife’s needs where there aren’t sufficient assets to meet both parties needs
Butler v Butler [2023] EWHC 2453 (Fam) This case provides an important reminder to all financial remedy practitioners about the fact that where a judge concludes that a case is a...
Conduct and add-back in financial remedy proceedings – get in early!
O v O [2023] EWFC 161 When assessing a financial remedy case, the court will always have to be guided by section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. Family practitioners will...