Articles by ‘Jon Toogood’

Last week the Supreme Court ruled that the ex-wife of a now wealthy green energy tycoon should be allowed to pursue her financial claims against her former husband 27 years after they had separated and 19 years after their divorce was finalised.

A recent ‘big money’ case illustrates the absurd length that people will sometimes go to when involved in an acrimonious divorce.

The case of Mr and Mrs Tattersall illustrates the approach that the Family Courts will apply in distributing relatively modest matrimonial assets (£280,000 of capital and pensions), where the mother has had to reduce her working hours and the father has also sought to do so, justifying this by saying he needed to spend time looking after his daughter at weekends.

Jon Toogood, a family law expert at Withy King, has qualified as a Family Law Arbitrator. He will become a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, joining a select band of 75 Family…

When Mr W* set off for work one day in September 2001 he expected it to be a usual day at the quarry, but it quickly turned into a day of disaster. Mr W…