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D Culligan v A Culligan (No.2) (Costs and Anonymity) [2025] EWFC 26. Judgment dealing solely with the issues of costs and whether the substantive judgment in the financial remedies proceedings handed down on 14 January 2025 should be anonymised. Summary by Jessica Holloway at Clintons

Compendious analysis of MPS case law by Nicholas Allen KC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, in a hard fought interim application.

Application by mother who wrongly removed child to Northern Cyprus in 2021, seeking finding that the court did not have jurisdiction to make orders in relation to the child. Held that the court does have jurisdiction. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

[NEW] #EWHC at #BAILII: Alimov v Mirakhmedov & Ors (Rev1) [2024] EWHC 3322 (Comm) (20 December 2024) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2024/3322.html

[NEW] #EWFC at #BAILII:
S & H, Re [2025] EWFC 18 (B) (04 February 2025) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2025/18.html
XX v XY [2023] EWFC 334 (B) (21 July 2023) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2023/334.html

[NEW] #EWHC at #BAILII:
Bourlakova & Ors v Bourlakov & Ors [2024] EWHC 3524 (Ch) (05 December 2024) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2024/3524.html
AFP Assets Ltd v Hugill [2025] EWHC 256 (Ch) (07 February 2025) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2025/256.html

[NEW] #EWFC at #BAILII:
MacQueen v MacQueen [2024] EWFC 400 (B) (09 February 2024) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/400.html
M v F (No. 2) [2024] EWFC 394 (B) (30 December 2024) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/394.html

AB and CD (Children) (1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention: Harm/Intolerable Situation; Child's Objections), Re [2024] EWHC 3520 (Fam):
Application by Special Guardians for return of children to Ireland. Mother's defences not made out, and return ordered. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

K (A Child), Re (Setting Aside 1980 Hague Convention Return Order) [2025] EWHC 210 (Fam) (05 February 2025):
Judgment setting aside order for father to return 15 year-old child to the USA, due to a misunderstanding of the strength of the child's objections. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

AB v CD [2024] EWHC 3254 (Fam) (13 December 2024):
Application by mother for summary return of 13 year-old child to the USA. Application refused, following finding that child objected to return. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Court of Appeal ordered in P (A Child) (Abduction: Child's Objections) [2024] EWCA Civ 1569 (16 December 2024) a summary return order to #Romania #WrongfulRetention #FamilyLaw #ParadigmFamilyLaw #1980HageConvention

F v M & Anor [2024] EWHC 3190 (Fam) (10 December 2024):
Appeal by father against child arrangements order on ground that there had been a breach of confidence by the mother's counsel, who had previously discussed the case with him. Appeal allowed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Almost 70% of HNW women have wealth generated by divorce Some 67 per cent of high-net-worth women have said the value of their current net worth was generated as a result of divorce.

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CA dismissed appeal LJ Underhill found [61]"I believe that the Judge was right to uphold the reasonableness of the Council's decision in .. unusual set of circumstances which are unlikely to be typical of the kinds of case in which the issue of whether a C requires accommodation under s20 arises."

'Delaying a Divorce Because of Financial Prejudice: The New No-fault Law and Practice' by Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb for 2024 Issue 3 (Winter) of the Financial Remedies Journal.

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Great article - thank you for sharing Catherine and I just forwarded it to my followers on LinkedIn - have a great rest of the week #LegalTech #Paradigm

HW v WB (Financial Remedies; Treatment of Post-nuptial Agreement) [2024] EWFC 328 (B). DJ Phillips. Was post-nuptial agreement fair? PNA did not meet needs following birth of child. Summary by Dr Stephanie Coker here tinyurl.com/3web92dr

SV v AV [2024] EWFC 86 (B). DJ Ashworth. Final financial remedy hearing involving the weight to be attached to a pre-nuptial agreement, non-matrimonial and matrimonial property, and the computation of assets. Summary by
Katie A Stephens of St Philip's Chambers here tinyurl.com/2s462hnt

F v M & Ors [2024] EWFC 355 (B) (02 December 2024):
Final hearing of private law proceedings, in case involving long-standing parental conflict. Ordered that children live with both parents. Barring order made against both parents for 3 years. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...