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Maintenance Agreements: Dead letters?

Joanne Hall highlights the potential rebirth of maintenance agreements together with practice and procedure ‘Once it is established that a maintenance agreement is valid, meeting the formalities required, a court can vary or alter the agreement during the lifetime of the parties, when both parties are domiciled and habitually resident in England and Wales.’ In …

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Marital Agreements: Final word

In the first of a two-part analysis Che Meakins discusses different types of agreements between parties in family proceedings and their impact ‘Unless there are “compelling reasons to the contrary”, an agreement should be given effect to where it is freely entered into by both parties.’ The rise of alternative dispute resolution methods may make …

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Separation Agreements: No second chance

Amy Harris contemplates the finality of separation agreements and applications to show cause ‘The court found that both parties gained from the agreement in one way or another and it was not until 20 years later that the wife sought to revisit the separation agreement on the basis that she had fallen upon hard times.’ …

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