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Periodical Payments: Defining need
Claire Reid considers the varying approach of the courts in assessing periodical payments ‘Charles J stated that the core principle was an application of needs, assessed by reference to the standard of living the parties had enjoyed during the marriage.’ While s3 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) grants the power to order …
Cases Referenced
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- B v S (Financial Remedy: Marital Property Regime) [2012] EWHC 265 (Fam)
- Cornick v Cornick (No 3) [2001] 2 FLR 1240
- CR v CR [2007] EWHC 3206 (Fam)
- G v G [2012] EWHC 167 (Fam)
- Hvorostovsky v Hvorostovsky [2009] EWCA Civ 791
- Lauder v Lauder [2007] EWHC 1227 (Fam)
- McFarlane v McFarlane [2009] EWHC 891 (Fam)
- Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] UKHL 24
- VB v JP [2008] EWHC 112 (Fam)