Housing Need

All Change or More of the Same? Housing Needs and Notional Property Down Under in light of Amendments to the Family Law Act 1975

[2026] 1 FRJ 55. Considering two aspects of the 2025 amendments to the Australian Family Law Act 1975: the greater recognition given to the needs of a party who has the care of a child to provide housing, and the removal of notional property or addbacks in the balance sheet in property division.

VP v SP [2025] EWFC 447 (B)

Deputy District Judge Cassidy Hope. Judgment in financial remedy proceedings, addressing needs-based distribution where one party is the primary carer of a disabled adult child.

A v N [2025] EWFC 371 (B)

Recorder Christopher Stirling. Final hearing in FR proceedings involving an intervener claim from W's elderly mother. Guidance given as to how the representations of third parties should be balanced against the needs of the spouses in accordance with s 24A(6) of the MCA 1973.

A v N [2025] EWFC 371 (B)

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/371

JB v RB [2025] EWFC 194 (B)

District Judge Akers. This case involved final financial remedy proceedings between the Wife and the Husband following the breakdown of a long marriage. The dispute centred on the division of the former family home, spousal maintenance, and the classification of certain debts as ‘soft loans’.

Tech Corner: Miris Reporting – Innovative Technology to Help Solicitors Prepare, Verify and Negotiate Client Housing Needs

Tech Corner: Miris Reporting – Innovative Technology to Help Solicitors Prepare, Verify and Negotiate Client Housing Needs

Introduction This article reviews how solicitors currently fulfil the filing requirements of the 2022 Statement on the Efficient Conduct of Financial Remedy Hearings in the Financial Remedies Court below High Court Judge Level (the Efficiency Statement). It documents the specific challenges of producing indicative borrowing capacity material, going on to

MNV v CNV [2025] EWFC 176 (B)

Judgment date: 19 June 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/176 DDJ Bradshaw. Drastic change in personal circumstances results in add-back in small money case. Overview DDJ Bradshaw considered arguments relating to the add-back of dissipated assets in a modest FR case. Shortly after separation the husband