A recent Court of Appeal decision has been said to cement London’s position as the ‘Divorce Capital of the World’. In this post we will look at that decision and consider briefly whether London can indeed be accurately described as the ‘Divorce Capital of the World’....
Since 2010 the courts of England and Wales have given effect to pre-nuptial agreements that are freely entered into by each party with a full appreciation of their implications, unless they have found that in the circumstances it would not be fair to hold the parties...
The basic aim of the law when sharing assets between the parties on divorce is to achieve fairness. Fairness dictates that only assets that are ‘matrimonial’ in nature should be shared, as it is not considered to be fair to share assets that have no connection to the...
One would of course normally expect the parties to a financial remedy application on divorce to incur reasonably similar amounts of legal costs, assuming that they are both legally represented. But what if one party incurred significantly more costs than the other?...
It should go without saying that when you are involved in financial remedy proceedings on divorce (or, indeed, in any type of court proceedings) you should comply with all orders and requirements of the court, and generally conduct yourself in an honest and...
