Z (No 4) (Schedule 1 award) [2023] EWFC 25

This case is in relation to an application under s15 and Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 brought in late-October 2020. The father in this matter [an investment manager aged 51 whom the Judge described as “immensely wealthy”] lives in the USA, the mother [a university graduate not currently in work, aged 31] lives in the UK with the parties only child, Zoe. The parties were never married, and they separated during the mother’s pregnancy with Zoe with the mother returning to England three months prior to Zoe’s birth. The father has not yet met Zoe.