Financial and Enforcement Orders : Sir James Munby ‘strongly encourages’ use of standard forms On 30 November 2017 the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, issued the following Practice Guidance: “Inordinate amounts of time and money are spent –...Read MoreTags: practice guidance, financial, enforcement
Catch Me If You Can It was Christian Slater who said, “Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement”. But what if your experience is that your Ex does not want to pay? What if your Ex still lives the “champagne lifestyle” and...Read MoreTags: judgment summons, judgement summons, financial remedy, financial proceedings, financial, enforcement
Introduction This article is a general overview about the debate around new paradigm concept of fixed fees in Financial Remedy Cases[1]. High Court Judge Mostyn says in his famous judgement in J v J [2] that ‘something must be done’. Indeed, his starting point was the...Read MoreTags: financial, financial proceedings, paradigm family law, fixed fee, family law, divorce
Child Maintenance At Paradigm Family Law we seem to have an increasing number of enquiries from unmarried parents concerning child maintenance and financial provision outside of the remit of the Child Support Agency (CSA) or Child Maintenance and Enforcement...Read MoreTags: family law, maintenance, financial, financial proceedings, child maintenance, children act, schedule 1, schedule one
A Frank Overview In the past we have seen more and more cases when spouses have been accused of hiding assets. We remember the Young case, when Michelle Young was awarded in 2013 £20m after her husband declared in the proceedings that he was penniless and could not...Read MoreTags: disclosure, financial proceedings, financial, fixed fee, family law, divorce
