DL v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions WL [2025] UKUT 108 (AAC)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/683ed75b2c163eb35f1e4522/UA-2023-000654-CSM.pdf
Child Maintenance
MM v FF (Maintenance: Scope of EU Withdrawal Agreement) [2026] EWFC 1
Appeal against District Judge Devlin’s dismissal of an application for child maintenance. MacDonald J examined the scope of the legal framework governing the application of Council Regulation (EC) No. 4/2009, as well as the importance of rigorous case management and appropriate judicial conduct.
Promises Unkept: Unpaid Child Maintenance and the Price of Inaction
Unpaid child maintenance remains one of the most persistent and under-addressed financial injustices affecting separated families in England and Wales. The failures of the CMS destabilise the very integrity of financial provision for children post-separation.
Re A Child (Schedule 1, 1989 Act; Variation) [2025] EWHC 1254 (Fam)
McKendrick J. Final Hearing concerning cross-Schedule 1 and specific issue applications brought by both parties. The High Court dismissed all but the respondent father’s application to release his intermediary from undertakings.
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v LR & Anor [2025] EWFC 271 (B)
DJ Guirguis. Exercising the power contained in s 32 of the Child Support Act 1991, the court set aside a transfer of property and injuncted the respondents from further dispositions to defeat child maintenance claims.
Re: H (A Child) (Appeal: Child Maintenance)
Henke J. A failed appeal by the father against the extension of the duration of a child maintenance order beyond the age of eighteen years.
OS v DT [2025] EWFC 156
HHJ Hess. Financial remedies final hearing heard by HHJ Hess involving total assets over £9m, and disputes concerning non-matrimonial property including post-separation income, and child periodical payments where the parties had equal shared care of the children.