Divorce and financial remedies, children (residence, contact, care proceedings and adoption), domestic abuse, forced marriage, surrogacy and related family matters.
Family LawThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 969
The case concerns a girl, D, aged 7, whose parents separated in February 2024. In July 2024 the mother moved out of the former family home to a town some 70 miles away, later moving to a property about 50 miles away where she now…
Family LawThe Court of Appeal of England and Wales (Civil Division)30 Jul 2026[2026] EWCA Civ 998
The appellant mother had two children: S, a boy of 14, whose father (F1) she separated from in 2012, and C, a girl of 6, whose father (F2) she married in 2018 and separated from in June/July 2025. The family had always lived in…
Family LawThe Family Division of the High Court16 Jul 2026[2026] EWHC 1988 (Fam)Added 29 Jul 2026
LM, aged 3, is the daughter of two Sudanese parents who were brought up and worked in the UAE, where they married in 2021. LM was born in the USA in Summer 2022 and holds US citizenship; the family returned to the UAE shortly…
Family LawThe Family Court (B cases)9 Jul 2026[2026] EWFC 202 (B)Added 22 Jul 2026
S, a boy born in May 2022, was made the subject of an interim care order that month and lived with his mother in a residential parenting assessment for his first four to five months; that assessment concluded in September 2022…
Family LawThe Family Court (B cases)2 Feb 2026[2026] EWFC 221 (B)Added 5 Aug 2026
The mother and Mr D married in 2014 and had two daughters, A (born 2016) and B (born 2018); the marriage broke down and they separated by late 2019, private law proceedings concluding in June 2022 with a shared care arrangement…
Family LawThe Family Court (B cases)18 Nov 2025[2025] EWFC 533 (B)Added 4 Aug 2026
The applicant, Dr TC, is the father of EF, a girl born in November 2024 and aged one at the date of judgment; the respondent, WF, is her mother. The parents met in April 2023 and had a turbulent, 'on/off' relationship while the…
Family LawThe Family Court (B cases)12 May 2025[2025] EWFC 522 (B)Added 3 Aug 2026
These were private law proceedings in the Central Family Court concerning two children, AXQ, a teenage boy, and his younger sister BXQ. The father, X, and the mother, Q, were never married but lived together from September 2003…