Family Law Maintenance of Spouses in UK Law

  • Gissing v Gissing
    • House of Lords
    • 07 July 1970
    ...... husband and wife agreed when acquiring the family home that the wife should make a financial ...Spouses generally expect that, on the decease of one of ... divorced him, obtained an order for maintenance and can apply in the appropriate Division of the ......
  • Pettitt v Pettitt
    • House of Lords
    • 23 April 1969
    ......The spouses lived for about four years in the new house. Then ... law regarding what are sometimes called family assets has been in an unsatisfactory state. There ... she will have a right to apply for a maintenance order against him for herself and any children ......
  • Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 October 2010
    ...... "– where there is a child of the family, whether or not that child was alive or a child ...By clause 5 they waived claims for maintenance after the marriage was terminated. Clause 6 ...For many years, agreements between spouses were considered void for public policy reasons ......
  • Miller v Miller (Short Marriage: Clean break)
    • House of Lords
    • 24 May 2006
    ...... Deepak Nagpal . (Instructed by Family Law in Partnership) . Respondents: . For Miller ... compensation as distinct from maintenance. . . 31 I see no difficulty on ...He thought that the spouses could share equally in the increase in the value ......
  • White v White
    • House of Lords
    • 26 October 2000
    ......The financial contributions from his family made this reasonable. . . 13 Mrs White ... concerned with income for the maintenance of spouses and children. The property adjustment ......
  • Wachtel v Wachtel
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 February 1973
    ...... principles which should be applied in the Family Division when granting ancillary relief pursuant ... of emphasis from the old concept of maintenance to one of redistribution of assets and of ... of property rights as between the spouses. This is the extent to which each has contributed ......
  • Minton v Minton
    • House of Lords
    • 23 November 1978
    ...... in the circumstances of one of the former spouses occurs soon after a final court order has been ..., should provide her with reasonable maintenance by way of periodical payments. The question for ... order for the benefit of a child of the family, or to such a child, such periodical payments, ......
  • Cowan v Cowan
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 May 2001
    ...... APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE —FAMILY DIVISION (MR JUSTICE SINGER) Royal ... of contributions which each of the spouses has made over the effective duration of their ... • The question of spousal maintenance will be considered second. • Where ......
  • R (MM (Lebanon)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 February 2017
    ...... with the entry requirements for non-EEA family members to join their relatives here. Section ... support as the test of adequate maintenance — at that level it could not be said that the ...: there is no cap on the number of spouses, partners and would-be partners who can be ......
  • Piglowski v Piglowski
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1999
    ......His family fled and he eventually came to England in 1948 at ... as if it laid down some rule that both spouses invariably have a right to purchased ... , 345, which concerned an order for maintenance for a divorced wife: "It is, of course, ......
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