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
