Acting for a Wife, our expert solicitors successfully resisted an application to set aside a financial order. The parties had agreed the order a few days before England went into lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The order required the Husband to pay a series of lump sums to the Wife. The Husband subsequently made an application to set aside the order, on the basis the value of his business had plummeted because of the pandemic, and he could no longer make the payments due.

The family team worked tirelessly pulling together evidence and shaping a strategy that was framed around the premise that the Husband could have reasonably foreseen what was to occur in the unfolding crisis. The court was persuaded by our client’s arguments and found that the risk to the Husband’s business was reasonably foreseeable and therefore his application to set aside the order was dismissed.