C v C (Financial Provision: Personal Damages) [1995] 2 FLR 171

Financial Provision: In sickness and in health

Frances Bailey looks at the potential impact of physical or mental disabilities on financial awards, and the relevant case law ‘Poor health may impact on, and increase, income needs, particularly where a party has, or will have in the future, a need to pay for costs of medicines, care and support.’ Section 25, Matrimonial Causes …

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Financial Provision: Balancing needs

Andrew Meehan outlines the courts’ approach when matrimonial assets include personal injury damages ‘In some cases, the needs of the recipient of the damages may mean that there is little or no readily available capital that might be transferred to the wife. In others, the need of the children and the primary carer may take …

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