Camini Kumar
Year of call
2008
Instructing Camini Kumar
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Camini Kumar’s practice focuses on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown and private children law. She is frequently instructed on concurrent proceedings between the same parties.
Camini is a qualified Arbitrator (MCIArb) and available to conduct arbitrations in both financial and children matters and, where appropriate, both together. Camini also conducts private FDRs.
Legal Expertise
Family Finance
Family Finance
Camini has particular expertise in financial disputes and acts in divorces, cohabitation claims and applications under Schedule 1 and Part III. Her cases frequently involve cross-jurisdictional assets, businesses and trusts. Camini also acts for third parties seeking to intervene in proceedings and on enforcement applications.
Notable Family Finance cases
Re V (European Maintenance Regulation) [2016] EWHC 668 (Fam)
In an application for maintenance, Parker J was required to determine whether the courts in Scotland or in England and Wales had jurisdiction. In concluding that the husband’s writ did not constitute an application for maintenance in accordance with the European Maintenance Regulation, it was held that the English court had jurisdiction and an order for interim maintenance was made.
View case >Saward v Saward [2013] EWCA Civ 1060
Application for permission to appeal against a decision of the lower court setting aside a decree nisi made in the English court on the basis that the English court had no jurisdiction to entertain the divorce proceedings. Application refused.
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Children: Private
Children: Private
Camini has extensive experience of acting in complex disputes over arrangements for children, including cases involving parental alienation, domestic abuse and international relocation.
Notable Children: Private cases
H-N (A Child : The Welfare Hearing) [2022] EWFC 148 (05 October 2022)
The court determined the father’s applications for the child to live with him and for permission to relocate the child to France. The court refused the father’s applications and ordered that the child live with the mother and spend extended periods with the father in France. The court made it a condition of the child arrangements order that the mother enrol the child in mainstream education.
H-N (the rehearing) [2021] EWFC B98 (05 October 2021)
At a re-hearing of a fact-finding hearing concerning disputed allegations of domestic abuse, followed the mother’s successful appeal to the Court of Appeal in the case of Re H-N, the court did not find the mother’s allegations, beyond those admitted by the father to have been proven.
Re H-N & Others [2021] EWCA Civ 448
The court was concerned with 4 appeals from orders made in private law Children Act 1989 proceedings each of which involved allegations of domestic abuse. As well as deciding each of the appeals upon well-established legal principles, the court took the opportunity to give some guidance about a number of matters which commonly arise in the Family Court in such cases.
View case >Re B (Foreign Surrogacy) [2016] EWFC 77
Application for a Parental Order where the applicants had separated, where the application was made outside the statutory 6-month timescale and where there was an issue as to the proportionality of the payments made to the surrogate. Application granted.
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International
International
Camini has acted in jurisdictional disputes, cases involving abandoned spouses, forced marriage and international surrogacy.
Notable International cases
Re B (Foreign Surrogacy) [2016] EWFC 77
Application for a Parental Order where the applicants had separated, where the application was made outside the statutory 6-month timescale and where there was an issue as to the proportionality of the payments made to the surrogate. Application granted.
View case >Re V (European Maintenance Regulation) [2016] EWHC 668 (Fam)
In an application for maintenance, Parker J was required to determine whether the courts in Scotland or in England and Wales had jurisdiction. In concluding that the husband’s writ did not constitute an application for maintenance in accordance with the European Maintenance Regulation, it was held that the English court had jurisdiction and an order for interim maintenance was made.
View case >Saward v Saward [2013] EWCA Civ 1060
Application for permission to appeal against a decision of the lower court setting aside a decree nisi made in the English court on the basis that the English court had no jurisdiction to entertain the divorce proceedings. Application refused.
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