MET v HAT [2013] EWHC 4247 (Fam)

Maintenance pending suit: Reasonable and required?

Andrew Smith provides a guide to the key principles to be applied on an application for maintenance pending suit and procedural points Maintenance pending suit will often not be reflective of longer term periodical payments and so it isn’t particularly necessary to go into longer term need for expenditure, especially that which is needed post-financial …

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Interim Orders: Short-term measures

Kate Elliott reports on the interplay between the validity of a divorce, jurisdiction, and interim orders for maintenance and costs ‘If the non-proceedings divorce was recognisable in this jurisdiction then the wife had no right to apply for relief under Part III, MFPA 1984.’ The decision in MET v HAT [2013] raises interesting issues as …

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