Spousal Maintenance - The Latest Caselaw & Guidance

Introduction

This webinar considers new cases from 2022 as well as the second edition of the guidance from the Family Justice Council and the effects of Brexit on EU maintenance cases.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The Family Justice Council's 2018 guidance on needs
• WC-v-HC [2022] - a new blueprint in financial relief cases
• When is a downwards variation in maintenance justified?
• The risk of capitalisation on a variation
• Mills v Mills - joint lives orders - the view from the Supreme Court
• The view of Mr Justice Mostyn in B v S and NS v SS denying spousal maintenance above a needs based level - are they good law?
• The current emphasis on the clean break
• Villiers v Villiers - now that the Supreme Court has permitted spouses to choose jurisdiction, will there now be a flurry of maintenance cases from Scotland?
• What replaces the Maintenance Regulation post Brexit?

This pre-recorded webinar will be streamed at 12:30pm on Thursday 9th February 2023 and will remain available to view by delegates who have registered by then for 90 days.