Background The court considered the effect of a prenuptial agreement on a wife’s applications for interim maintenance, interim periodical payments for a child, and legal services provision The husband was 55 years and the wife 40. They met in 2001,…
Field Overell, has secured the national Law Society’s law management quality mark, Lexcel. Lexcel is developed specifically for the legal profession. It is an optional recognised accreditation scheme for law firms and in-house legal departments which gives assurance that a…
This was a Husband’s appeal in ancillary relief proceedings focusing on the treatment of trust assets. The Court of Appeal determined that as the Husband clearly had access to a trust fund it was appropriate to take those assets into…
Severine recently acted on a defended divorce which went all the way to a 2 day final contested hearing. Severine was instructed by the Petitioner husband in this matter, who petitioned for divorce on his wife’s unreasonable behaviour towards him.…
Janine Thomson, assistant to Séverine Vincent (Associate Solicitor) is the third person in the country to be awarded with the Family Law Assistant Certificate by Resolution. Whilst working full time, Janine has had to complete five in depth assignments, achieving…
Severine recently acted on an injunction case where she represented the Defendant father. The matter was heard in the Birmingham High Court by one of the most senior family high court judges in the country, Mr Justice McFarlane who is…
MacLeod v MacLeod [2008] UKPC 64 This was a Privy Councili decision handed down on 18 December 2008 which addressed the question of enforceability of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. The proceedings eventually led the husband appealing to the Privy Council…
Radmacher v Granatino [2009] EWCA Civ 649 This was an Appeal by a wife (one of Germany’s richest woman said to be worth £100 million) against an award in ancillary relief proceedings where the couple, both born overseas, had signed…
Rachmacher –v- Gratino [2010]UKSC42 – The Supreme Court upholds the Court of Appeal decision – 20th October 2010 The Supreme Court found in favour of the wife and held that the Court of Appeal was correct in allowing the enforcement…
The Ministry of Justice Reforms have resulted in a new process for dealing with road traffic accident claims valued at between £1,000.00 and £10,000.00. The claims are now submitted to Insurers via a secure computer portal which acts as an…