Timokhin [2019] EWCA Civ 1284 Court of Appeal, 18 July 2019, Underhill, King and Moylan LJJ
The parents were both Russian; they relocated from Russia to London in 2004. Their two children were now 15 and nearly 8. Following the breakdown of the marriage, bitter children arrangements proceedings followed. In November 2017, the father applied for permission to remove the children permanently to Russia to live with him. In April 2018, […]
Quan v Bray [2019] EWFC 46 Family Court, 23 July 2019, Holman J
The couple had been engaged in very protracted divorce proceedings. In December 2018, a financial order had been made by a High Court judge, requiring the husband to make certain payments to the wife. To date, the husband had paid nothing and currently owed £38,665, In June 2019, the wife had applied for ‘such method […]
H v W [2019] EWHC 1897 (Fam) Family Division, 17 July 2019, Clare Ambrose (sitting as a deputy High Court judge)
The couple married in 1988 and had two children (now adult). They separated in October 2014 and sold the former matrimonial home in November 2015. Decree nisi was pronounced in October 2016. The husband and wife divided the proceeds of sale equally and purchased their own properties with mortgages; the wife’s was worth around £30,000 […]
Re R (A Child: Appeal: Termination of Contact) [2019] EWHC 132 (Fam) Family Division, 29 January 2019, Williams J
The mother, who was profoundly deaf, made an allegation against the father in 2013, when the child was about 7. After investigation, no action was taken by either the local authority or the police. In 2014 the mother and maternal grandmother made further allegations of physical abuse against the father. These were later found to […]
Re MFS (Appeal: Transfer of Primary Care) [2019] EWHC 768 (Fam) Family Division, 29 March 2019, Williams J
The child was born in September 2010. Litigation was ongoing in respect of the child from late 2012. In March 2017, the mother suspended contact with the father, which had been taking place on alternate weekends and half the holidays. The mother then wrote to the judge, alleging that the school had demonstrated concerns for […]
Re L (A Child) [2019] EWHC 867 (Fam) Family Division, 8 April 2019, Sir Andrew McFarlane P
Following the parents’ separation, the child lived with the mother and maternal grandmother. The father lived with a new partner in Northern Ireland. From 2013 onwards, the child was the subject of litigation in the Family Court, on the mother’s application. In May 2016, a final order was made by consent, confirming that the child […]
WG v HG [2018] EWFC 84 Family Court, 30 July 2018, Francis J
WG v HG [2018] EWFC 84 Family Court, 30 July 2018, Francis J The couple met in 2004, shortly after the husband’s first marriage had come to an end, when the wife was employed as a nanny for the husband’s son from his first marriage. In the financial remedy proceedings arising out of the first […]
US v SR [2018] EWHC 3297 (Fam) Family Division, 29 November 2018, Roberts J
US v SR [2018] EWHC 3297 (Fam) Family Division, 29 November 2018, Roberts J During the marriage, the husband worked in the oil and gas industry, earning a substantial income. At the time of the separation, in 2010, there were assets of over £6 million. However, the couple’s financial remedy proceedings were bitterly contested, highly […]
Mills v Mills [2018] UKSC 38
Supreme Court, 18 July 2018, Lady Hale P, Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hughes, Lord Hodge The husband and wife married in 1987, separated in 2000 and divorced in 2002. During the marriage the wife had worked as a qualified self-employed beauty therapist and the husband had built up his own surveying business, within two […]
Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41
The husband and wife married in 1978 and separated in 2015; they had two adult children. The wife had sent the husband a draft divorce petition in December 2012, but this had not been pursued. The wife was having an affair at this stage. Although the affair ended in August 2013, the wife filed another […]