Results: 37

• Martin v Martin

  25 Feb 1976 [1976] Fam 167; [1976] 2 WLR 901, Fam D

  14 Jun 1976 [1976] Fam 335; [1976] 3 WLR 580; [1976] 3 All ER 625, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 19.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Costs

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Conduct of parties
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Costs — Ancillary proceedings — Husband ordered to pay lump sum and costs — Unlikely to be able to pay both — Whether costs to follow event

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Conduct of parties — Assets, in relation to — Wife maintaining farm as viable asset — Husband dissipating family assets — Whether husband's conduct relevant in considering financial provision and transfer of property order — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, ss 23 (1), 24 (1), 25

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Campbell v Campbell

  23 Jan 1976 [1976] Fam 347; [1976] 3 WLR 572; [1977] 1 All ER 1, Fam D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Conduct of parties

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Duration of marriage
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Conduct of parties — Evidence — Avoidance of lengthy investigation — Whether affidavit evidence sufficient

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Duration of marriage — Whether period of co-habitation to be taken into account — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 25 (1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• W v W (Financial Provision: Lump Sum)

  10 Jul 1975 [1976] Fam 107; [1975] 3 WLR 752; [1975] 3 All ER 970, Fam D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 6.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Conduct of parties

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Lump sum award
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Conduct of parties — After decree absolute — Whether subsequent conduct to be taken into account

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Lump sum award — Deduction — After decree absolute wife living with man in house bought in joint names — Whether wife's interest to be taken into account in claim for lump sum payment for her share in former matrimonial home — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 25 (1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Thompson v Thompson

  [1957] 2 WLR 138, CA

  [1957] P 19, CA

  31 Jan 1975 [1976] Fam 25; [1975] 2 WLR 868; [1975] 2 All ER 208; 73 LGR 488, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 18.
  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Husband and wife

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Practice (in matrimonial causes) — Pleading

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Property — Transfer of property
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  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Husband and wife — Divorce — Petition by husband alleging perjury by wife in previous maintenance proceedings — Dismissal of wife's charge of cruelty in maintenance proceedings — Wife repeating charge of cruelty against husband in answer to his petition in divorce — Application to strike out allegations of cruelty — No estoppel binding the court in divorce jurisdiction.

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Practice (in matrimonial causes) — Pleading — Rules to be observed.

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Property — Transfer of property — Council house — Husband tenant — Wife's application for transfer of tenancy — Whether tenancy of council house “property” — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 24 (1) (a)

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered
• In re B (An Infant) (Adoption: Parental Consent)

  11 Feb 1976 [1976] Fam 161; [1976] 2 WLR 755; [1976] 3 All ER 124; 74 LGR 382, Fam D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 3.
  ADOPTION — Consent of parent — Dispensing with
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  ADOPTION — Consent of parent — Dispensing with — Welfare of child to be “first consideration” — Principles applicable — Adoption Act 1958, s 5 (1) (b) — Children Act 1975, s 3

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• K v K (Divorce Costs: Interest)

  03 Mar 1976 [1976] Fam 279; [1976] 3 WLR 201; [1976] 2 All ER 774, Fam D

  02 Nov 1976 [1977] Fam 39; [1977] 2 WLR 55; [1977] 1 All ER 576, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 18.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Costs

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — County court
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Costs — Interest — Husband ordered to pay wife's costs of ancillary proceedings — Taxation of costs — Whether interest payable from date of order — Judgments Act 1838, ss 17, 18 — Matrimonial Causes (Costs) Rules 1971, r 8 (1)

  LAW REFORM — Whether necessary — County court — Interest on judgment debts and costs

  7 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Wright v Wright (1975)

  10 Nov 1975 [1976] Fam 114; [1976] 2 WLR 269; [1976] 1 All ER 796, Fam D

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Decree absolute
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Decree absolute — Validity — Petition based on five years' separation — Application by respondent wife for financial protection — Decree made absolute before court satisfied as to wife's financial provision — Whether decree absolute void or voidable — Divorce Reform Act 1969, s 6 (2)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re Y (A Minor) (Child in Care: Access)

  14 May 1975 [1976] Fam 125; [1975] 3 WLR 342; [1975] 3 All ER 348; 73 LGR 495, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 6.
  MINOR — Ward of court — Jurisdiction
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  MINOR — Ward of court — Jurisdiction — Access — Ward committed to care of local authority — Whether power to control access at discretion of local authority — Court's jurisdiction — Children Act 1948, s 13 (2) (as amended by Children and Young Persons Act 1969, s 49) — Family Law Reform Act 1969, s 7 (2) (3) — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 43 (5) (a)

  3 Statutes considered

• S v S (Note)

  07 Dec 1973 [1976] Fam 18; [1975] 2 WLR 615; [1975] 2 All ER 19, Fam D

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Property — Transfer of property
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Property — Transfer of property — Sole asset — Matrimonial home in joint names — Wife having care of child in frail health — Husband intending to remarry — Wife's application for husband's share in matrimonial home to be transferred to her — Proper approach — Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970, ss 4, 5 (1)

  1 Statute considered
• Law v Gustin (formerly Law)

  24 Mar 1975 [1976] Fam 155; [1975] 3 WLR 843; [1976] 1 All ER 113, Fam D

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 2.
  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Foreign decree, validity
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  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Nullity — Foreign decree, validity — Connection with foreign state — Marriage in England between British nationals — Wife leaving husband to live in foreign state — Decree of nullity granted to wife in that state — Whether real and substantial connection

  1 Case considered