M & R (Children) (Refusal of Legal Aid Costs) Neutral Citation Number [2025] EWFC 299 (B): Judgment in private law proceedings refusing to allow some of M's solicitors' costs to be charged to M's legal aid certificate, due to their unreasonable conduct. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

KU v BI [2025] EWFC 296 (B) (05 September 2025): Judgment in divorce proceedings, considering whether a ceremony that took place in a village in Nigeria constituted a valid marriage. Held that it was a valid marriage. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

B Council v M & Ors [2025] EWFC 297 (27 August 2025): Fact-finding in care proceedings concerning three children. Children found to have suffered emotional harm. Care order made in relation to the oldest child. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

London Borough of Tower Hamlets v Mother & Ors [2025] EWFC 216 (B): Care proceedings, issued following concerns including exposure to domestic abuse, allegations of sexual abuse and the parents' use of physical chastisement. Care and placement orders made. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

S v Q [2025] EWHC 2381 (Fam) (18 September 2025): Application by father for summary return of children to Mauritius. Return ordered, subject to protective measures. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

H (A Child) (Appeal: Child Maintenance), Re Neutral Citation Number [2025] EWHC 2361 (Fam) (17 September 2025): Appeal by father against the extension of the duration of a child maintenance order beyond the age of eighteen years. Appeal dismissed. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/202...

X v Y [2025] EWFC 291 (B) (11 September 2025): Fact-finding in child arrangements proceedings, concerning mother's allegations of abuse against father. Most allegations found proven. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

C, Re (OCD: Parental Obstruction of Care) [2025] EWFC 261: Care proceedings in relation to a 16 year-old with mental health difficulties, issued following concerns that the family were not engaging with support services. Care order made. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

A Local Authority v A & Ors [2025] EWFC 295 (B) (01 August 2025): Fact-finding within care proceedings, to determine whether injuries to child were inflicted upon her by one (or both) of her parents. Found that the injuries were caused by the father. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

K v B & Ors [2025] EWFC 294 (B) (05 June 2025): Fact-finding hearing within private law proceedings, to consider M's allegations of abuse, and F's allegation of alienation. M's allegations mostly not proven. M found to have exhibited alienating behaviours. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Local Authority v Mother & Ors [2025] EWFC 293 (B) (15 April 2025): Care proceedings. Application by local authority to withhold psychological report upon child from his parents. Application dismissed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

E v E & Ors [2025] EWFC 289 (B) (02 May 2025): Private law proceedings concerning 4 children. Found that the father had sought to alienate children from mother. Ordered that they move from father's care, to live with mother. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

BM, Re (Children: Tracking Devices) [2025] EWFC 290 (B): Care proceedings, where the children were in foster care. Judgment finding that the parents had placed tracking devices in the children's belongings, with the aim of snatching the children back. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

G v N [2025] EWFC 286 (B) (14 January 2025): Husband's financial remedies application, in which the only marital asset was the former matrimonial home, and the wife had left nearly 30 years previously. Property transferred to husband. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

AT v NB (No 2) (Maintenance Pending Suit: Costs) Neutral Citation Number [2025] EWFC 287 (B) (10 September 2025): Costs hearing, following wife's successful application for maintenance pending suit. Husband ordered to pay 50% of wife's costs. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/...

ER v NT (Need for fact finding hearing) [2025] EWHC 2146 (Fam): Appeal by M against dismissal of application for a finding of fact hearing into allegations of domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour made against F. Appeal allowed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Father v. Mother (Fact-Finding: DARVO) [2025] EWFC 284 (B): Fact-finding in private law proceedings, concerning abuse allegations by both parties. F's allegations not found. M's allegations proved. F's allegations found to amount to 'DARVO'. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

K, Re (Internal Relocation) Neutral Citation Number [2025] EWFC 285 (B): Child arrangements proceedings concerning 3-year-old. Ordered child live with M and spend time with F. M's application to relocate from Nottingham to the North East dismissed. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/...

W v M [2025] EWHC 2245 (Fam) (10 April 2025): Application by father for permission to appeal from order that child live with mother and go to specified school. Permission refused. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

FJ v MH (no 2) (private law - welfare following fact finding) (No 2) [2025] EWFC 283: Final hearing of child arrangements proceedings, following findings of abuse against F. F's contact application dismissed, & s.91(14) order made until youngest child 16. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

S (Children) (Interim Threshold), Re Neutral Citation Number [2025] EWFC 281: Application for care order, issued due to concerns that the parents would take the children to a country where they would be at risk of harm. Application dismissed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Potanina v Potanin (No. 2) [2025] EWCA Civ 1136 (04 September 2025): Re-hearing of wife's appeal against an order refusing leave to pursue a claim for financial relief following a foreign divorce. Appeal allowed and leave granted. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

SA v JR [2025] EWFC 279 (B) (26 August 2025): Application by mother for permission to relocate with the child permanently to live in Dubai. Application refused. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

A (A Child) (Fact Finding Hearing), Re [2025] EWFC 280 (B) (22 August 2025): Fact-finding in private law proceedings, considering numerous allegations of abuse made by each party against the other, and by the mother against the paternal grandmother. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

M (Nationality Based Jurisdiction), Re [2025] EWHC 1821 (Fam) (17 July 2025): Application by 17-year-old for an order that he be returned from Somalia. Judgment confirming that the court had jurisdiction, based on his British nationality. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

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AA v BA [2025] EWFC 278 (B) (01 August 2025): Preliminary hearing in financial remedy application, to determine the extent of the husband's parents' interest in assets held in the name of the husband and wife. Parents' claim dismissed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

A Local Authority v Mother & Ors [2025] EWFC 275 (B) (01 August 2025): Care proceedings in respect of 2 children, issued following concerns over the mother's drug use. Care and placement orders made. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

MZA v FHB (No 4) (private law - supplementary welfare judgment) [2025] EWFC 277 (B): Supplementary judgment in private law proceedings, providing for father to have supervised contact and making s.91(14) barring order until children reach age of 16. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v LR & Anor [2025] EWFC 271 (B) (13 August 2025): Application by Secretary of State to set aside transfer of property by father, who owes child maintenance, to his civil partner. Transfer set aside. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

A Mother v A Father (Internal relocation and costs in litigation misconduct) [2025] EWFC 274 (B) (10 July 2025): Proceedings concerning possible relocation of child with mother from Buckinghamshire to Northumberland. Relocation permitted. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

N (A Child) (Registration of Birth), Re [2024] EWFC 466 (B) (02 December 2024): Application by mother of child in care to prevent the local authority from registering the child's birth. Application dismissed. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

J (A Child), Re (Withdrawal of Ventilation) [2025] EWHC 2247 (Fam): Application by NHS Trust for a declaration that it is in the best interest of a child with a severe brain injury to have ventilation and intensive care withdrawn. Declaration granted. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Nottingham City Council v PR & Ors [2025] EWFC 269 (B) (21 August 2025): Fact-finding in care proceedings, concerning cause of injury to child. Found that the injury was inflicted by the father. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...