Divorce
WC v HC [2022] EWFC 22 [2022] All ER (D) 62 (Apr)
The Family Court, in the context of financial remedy proceedings, held that the applicant wife’s award would be £7.45m net which was about 60% of the total of £12.47m. The respondent husband would make a very high level of financial commitment for the two children. The period of cohabitation and marriage was about 16 or 17 years and agreement had been reached on a post-marital agreement but the wife had not signed the agreement. The Court held, among other things, that: (i) the post-marital agreement was not vitiated or tainted by undue pressure or duress; (ii) the absence of the wife’s signature, in circumstances where she consciously decided not to sign, took the agreement outside the Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino (pre-nuptial contract) [2011] 1 All ER 373 (Radmacher) category of cases; and (iii) the agreement fell to be considered as one of the factors, but it was not presumptively dispositive as would be the case if it fell into the Radmacher category. Further, given the present
