Barder Events & Financial Remedy Orders - Guidance for Family Law Practitioners

Introduction

This webinar explores the court’s approach to Barder events and provides a practical guide to challenging a financial remedy order where a supervening event undermines the basis or fundamental assumption on which the original order was made.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• What qualifies as a Barder event - unforeseen and unforeseeable circumstances
• Key cases and recent judicial interpretation of the Barder principles
• Fluctuations in the value of assets
• Changes in income and earning capacity
• Changes in child arrangements
• Death - when, if ever, can this amount to a Barder event?
• The impact of remarriage or cohabitation
• The effect of inheritance
• The procedural steps for challenging an order on Barder grounds

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 28th May 2026

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