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Summary

A hearing dealing with two distinct matters: a contested divorce application, and disputed applications for financial remedies, including forum conveniens issues, and successful applications for a Hadkinson order and Hemain injunction.

Background

A is a Hungarian national, born in April 1992. She became a British national in April 2026. R was born in America in January 1972. The parties met in 2019, were engaged later that year and married on 30 July 2020 in the United States of America. They have no children. They separated in September 2025. A applied for divorce in the jurisdiction of England and Wales on 6 October 2025. On 14 October 2025, Deputy District Judge Stuart made an order for substituted service of the divorce application out of the jurisdiction to R in America. R applied to set that aside on 7 November 2025, which was successful at the hearing on 16 February 2026, with judgment being handed down at a hearing on 27 March 2026. At that same hearing where both parties were represented, McKendrick J made orders for maintenance pending suit (MPS) and legal services payment orders (LSPO) against R, as well as acceding to R’s request for directions and a listing to determine forum conveniens.

 

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