Matrimonial Home in UK Law

  • Gissing v Gissing
    • House of Lords
    • 07 July 1970
    ... ... a common case where husband and wife agreed when acquiring the family home that the wife should make a financial contribution and the title to the ... to the marriage to the question of beneficial ownership of the matrimonial home at the time that it is being acquired. If on the evidence that ... ...
  • Barclays Bank Plc v O'Brien
    • House of Lords
    • 21 October 1993
    ... ... Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien were husband and wife. The matrimonial home, 151, Farnham Lane, Slough, was in their joint names subject to a ... ...
  • Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 12 June 2013
    ... ... They were married in 1993, and during the marriage the matrimonial home was in England, although the husband was found by the judge to have ... ...
  • Piglowski v Piglowski
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1999
    ... ... She applied for an order dividing up the matrimonial assets. There was not a great deal to divide. The former matrimonial home ... ...
  • Miller v Miller (Short Marriage: Clean break)
    • House of Lords
    • 24 May 2006
    ... ... discretionary powers conferred on the court by Part II of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. In particular the House emphasised that in seeking a fair ... there should be no bias in favour of the money-earner and against the home-maker and the child-carer. This is a principle of universal application ... ...
  • Wachtel v Wachtel
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 February 1973
    ... ... On 31st March, 1972, there left the home. On 21st July, 1972, there was a divorce on the ground that the marriage ... (i) a lump sum of £10,000, or half the value of the former matrimonial home in Norwood, South London, whichever be the less: (ii) a periodical ... ...
  • Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2); Kenyon-Brown v Desmond Banks & Company (Undue Influence) (No 2); Bank of Scotland v Bennett; UCB Home Loans Corporation Ltd v Moore; National Westminster Bank Plc v Gill; Midland Bank Plc v Wallace; Barclays Bank Plc v Harris; Barclays Bank Plc v Coleman
    • House of Lords
    • 11 October 2001
    ... ... It is important that a wife (or anyone in a like position) should not charge her interest in the matrimonial home to secure the borrowing of her husband (or anyone in a like position) without fully understanding the nature and effect of the proposed ... ...
  • Calderbank v Calderbank
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 June 1975
    ... ... , an Application which was made pursuant to Section 23 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ... 3 The facts are these. Mr. and Mrs. Calderbank (and ... In January 1973 the wife left home and she has since remarried. After aha left home the wife brought divorce ... ...
  • Pettitt v Pettitt
    • House of Lords
    • 23 April 1969
    ... ... The Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, provided that in every case of a judicial separation a ... people are about to be married and when they are arranging to have a home in which to live they do not make their arrangements in the contemplation ... ...
  • Burns v Burns
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 July 1983
    ... ... developments since those two cases were decided: (1) The Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act, 1970, was passed on 29th May, 1970, and came ... proprietary rights in a family asset, generally the matrimonial home acquired as a result of their concerted actions, the courts have imputed ... ...
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