Schedule 1: Setting boundaries

Hall Brown | June 2022 #214
Matthew Hodgson and Edward Davison highlight a Sch 1 claim where the court considered the approach to indebtedness and provision to allow for future career development A claim for maintenance which is earmarked for a parent’s career development falls on the wrong side of the line between a claim which is for the benefit of …

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Enforcement: Continuing relevance

Fullers Family Law | February 2022 #210
Molly Betts examines the ongoing significance of the EU Maintenance Regulation in relation to non-EU member states It was argued on behalf of the father that, had the proceedings which were actually issued in Monaco been issued in another member state, then those proceedings would have had priority under the EU Maintenance Regulation and the …

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Child maintenance: Few and far between

Rayden Solicitors | June 2021 #204
Beth Kivelä considers when the court may capitalise child maintenance and the exceptional circumstances required for it to do so Although the inherent difficulties in making certain predictions about the future might provide the court with good reasons not to capitalise a periodical payments order, such difficulties have no bearing on the existence of the …

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