As any family lawyer will attest, court proceedings can be prohibitively expensive. And this is especially so when it comes to contested financial remedy proceedings on divorce. Of course, if a party has substantial means then the cost of such proceedings may not be...
Before the court can make a financial remedies order on divorce it will obviously first require full details of the financial assets of both parties, so that it can decide upon a fair settlement. The parties are therefore under a duty to make full and frank disclosure...
It is obviously not unusual that one party to a marriage will contribute much more financially to the marriage than the other party. Not unnaturally, that party may believe that that contribution should entitle them to a greater share of the assets on divorce. But the...
It has recently been announced that the Law Commission has been asked by the Ministry of Justice to undertake a review of the law which determines how finances are divided between couples at the end of their marriage or civil partnership. The Government has requested...
It is axiomatic that both the husband and the wife will make some sort of contribution towards a marriage, whether financial or otherwise. Sometimes one party will consider that their contribution so outweighs the other party’s contribution as to entitle them to a...
It is sadly often the case that one party to divorce proceedings will consider that the other party has behaved badly in some way, and that that behaviour should be reflected in the division of finances, by reducing the award that the other party receives. But just...
