Financial Settlements

Who gets the house in a divorce rarely turns on whose name is on the deeds. Between spouses the family home is matrimonial property…

When a marriage ends, the family home is usually the largest asset to divide — and the first disagreement is often about what it…

Financial disclosure in a UK divorce rests on one duty: full and frank disclosure of your finances, owed to your spouse and to the…

If the family home is in your spouse’s sole name, a matrimonial home rights notice is the free protection that stops it being sold…

Spouses can transfer assets between them free of capital gains tax while they are living together. Separation used to end that treatment at the…

Spousal maintenance after divorce is neither automatic nor for life by default — two myths that cause equal and opposite panic. It exists for…

In Hirachand v Hirachand the Supreme Court closed the “back door” on litigation funding in inheritance disputes: a conditional fee agreement success fee cannot…

Howe v Howe is the 2025 decision in which an estranged adult daughter — described in her father’s will file as “lazy” and “useless”…

When a marriage ends, English courts divide assets through three principles: needs, sharing and — rarely — compensation. The sharing principle holds that what…

After the family home, pensions are usually the largest asset in a marriage — and the one most often under-valued or traded away badly.…

Ring-fencing is the art of keeping an asset out of the divorce settlement — an inheritance, a pre-marital property, a business built before the…

Standish v Standish is the Supreme Court’s decision, handed down on 2 July 2025, that redrew the boundary between matrimonial and non-matrimonial property: the…