de Facto Family in UK Law
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Pettitt v Pettitt
... ... the last twenty years the law regarding what are sometimes called family assets has been in an unsatisfactory state. There have been many cases ... They do not, in my opinion, ipso facto become family assets of which the wife is part owner. If this seems hard ... ...
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Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd
... ... intestate left no widow or was a woman, such member of tenant's family residing with the tenant at death as might be decided in default of ... 18 In the second place it has been accepted that de facto relationships can be recognised as constituting a family. Thus in Brock ... ...
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Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
... ... The plaintiffs were the owners of their family home. The local municipality erected a nine storey hospital on a ... De facto possession is sufficient to give the appellant his remedy: Foster v ... ...
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Breakspear and Others v Ackland and another
... ... Basil James Dunning (“Basil”) who, by common consent, was the de facto settlor of the Settlement. (2) The setting aside of a purported ... , beliefs and the communication of certain facts secret from the family. Objectively speaking, that secrecy may in many cases be thoroughly ... ...
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Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung v Rayner & Keeler Ltd and Others (Original Appeal) and Rayner & Keeler Ltd and Others v Courts and Others (Cross Appeal)
... ... Majesty's Government has never granted recognition de jure or de facto to that Republic or its government, we must refuse to recognise as ... apply to divorces and all manner of judicial decisions whether in family or commercial questions. And that would affect not only status of persons ... ...
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McLoughlin v O'Brian
... ... one who was not present at the scene of grievous injuries to her family but who comes upon those injuries at an interval of time and space, can ... of causation from the one event to the other, considered ex post facto in the light of all that has happened, "reasonably foreseeable" by the ... ...
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Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria
... ... These people can conveniently be called de facto trustees. They intended to act as trustees, if only as a matter of ... The facts were similar to those of many other cases about Victorian family trusts. The fund had been entrusted by the trustees to Ashwell, the ... ...
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Re J (A Minor) (Abduction: Custody Rights)
... ... ordered the application to be transferred to the Family Court of Western Australia. On 12 April 1990 Anderson J. in the Family ... in their jointly owned home in Western Australia, the de facto custody of J. was exercised by them jointly. So far as legal rights of ... ...
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Barclays Bank Plc v O'Brien
... ... the wife is subservient to the husband in the management of the family's finances. A number of the authorities reflect an unwillingness in the ... falling within Class 2(A), if the complainant proves the de facto existence of a relationship under which the complainant generally reposed ... ...
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J v C
... ... the infant and the parents kept in touch with the foster parents' family. In February, 1960, the mother again became pregnant. As she was afraid of ... the proposition that as the effect of the judge's order was a de facto adoption order he ought not to have made it. Under sections 4 and 5 of ... ...
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