“Forget bitter divorce battles with wives seeking multimillion-pound maintenance awards for themselves and their progeny — the latest arena for dispute could be a couple’s animals after a landmark ruling in which a wife has been awarded £50,000 a year in maintenance, just for the upkeep of her three horses.”
The Times, 22nd September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The divorce rate in England and Wales fell to a 26-year low last year, government figures show today.”
The Guardian, 29th August 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A divorcee who won a £1.4million payout from her multi-millionaire husband is suing her lawyers because she claims she should have got twice that amount.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In choosing to examine the status of pre-nuptial agreements, the Law Commission has missed an opportunity to clarify the wider and far more significant issue of how to split marital assets on divorce.”
The Times, 13th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Children in divorce and separation cases are being left at risk of abuse because of serious failings by social workers dealing with their cases, according to a watchdog.”
The Times, 28th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A divorcée has won the right to move abroad with her three children after judges ruled that the £610,000 she received in her divorce settlement from her wealthy husband would not be enough to buy an adequate home in London.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A senior judge spoke out against child access law yesterday, saying that the courts were powerless to help decent fathers to see their children if vengeful mothers stood in the way.”
The Times, 1st May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“It was wholly inappropriate for a judge to make an order which he himself acknowledged was plainly wrong.”
The Times, 30th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are ony available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
B v B (Ancillary relief: Distribution of assets)
Court of Appeal
“The source and origin of assets should be taken into account in considering ancillary relief since the primary objectives were fairness and an absence of discrimination between the parties.”
The Times, 30th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Chris Tarrant, the presenter of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? has given his estranged wife Ingrid half of his £25 million in a divorce settlement, she said last night.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Heather Mills has hired a new team of forensic accountants to try to prove that ex-husband Paul McCartney is worth double the £400 million he claimed in their divorce struggle, according to friends of the former model.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
B v B [2008] EWCA Civ 543; [2008] WLR (D) 90
“In ancillary relief cases the source and origin of assets was one of the factors that had to be taken into account in determining distribution since the primary objectives of the exercise were fairness and an absence of discrimination between the parties.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“An heiress who married a penniless Kosovan refugee and was ordered by the divorce courts to hand him a £1m car wash she had bought for him to run has been told by the appeal court that she can keep half the business.”
The Guardian, 24th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The decision to publish the ‘warts and all’ judgment on the financial battle between Heather Mills and Sir Paul McCartney is a sign of the wish among family judges for more openness in their courts. But the flow of media leaks in the case, the high-profile nature of the couple and intense media interest were equally strong factors in the judge’s decision, lawyers said yesterday.”
The Times, 19th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
The Times, 18th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The full judgment in Sir Paul McCartney’s divorce battle with Heather Mills is to be made public today after the former model’s application for an appeal was refused.”
The Times, 18th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Mr Justice Bennett issued a summary of his judgment handed down today after hearing the Sir Paul McCartney/Heather Mills divorce case in private.”
The Times, 17th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Heather Mills is expected to be awarded a lump sum of between £25 million and £30 million in her divorce proceedings with Sir Paul McCartney — the amount that he offered originally.”
The Times, 15th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Paul McCartney is expected to find out on Monday how much of his fortune he must hand over to estranged wife Heather Mills when a judge rules on their acrimonious and highly public divorce.”
Reuters, 13th March 2008
Source: www.reuters.com
“A leading Caribbean judge has launched a staunch defence of trusts, fuelling expectations that there will be an unprecedented stand-off between offshore and onshore judges over the landmark Charman v Charman divorce ruling.”
Legal Week, 13th March 2008
Source: www.legalweek.com
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