Matrimonial Property in UK Law

  • Miller v Miller (Short Marriage: Clean break)
    • House of Lords
    • 24 May 2006
    ... ... of problems: how to achieve fairness in the division of property following a divorce. In White v White [2001] 1 AC 596 your Lordships' ... 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 ... ...
  • White v White
    • House of Lords
    • 26 October 2000
    ... ... One question always arises. It concerns how the property of the husband and wife should be divided and whether one of them should ... has been preferred by the New Zealand legislature, in the Matrimonial Property Act 1976. Another approach is for the legislature to leave it all ... ...
  • Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 October 2010
    ... ... of the couple have failed to give full disclosure of assets and property before the agreement was made – where ... that the effects of their marriage, including the laws of matrimonial property and succession, were to be subject to the law of the Federal ... ...
  • Charman v Charman (No 2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 May 2007
    ... ... that the husband would transfer to her his interest in the matrimonial home, the wife held £8 million and the husband held £123 million. The ...   (i) Real property in U.S. £5 ... ...
  • Pettitt v Pettitt
    • House of Lords
    • 23 April 1969
    ... ... by virtue of the provisions of section 17 of the Married Women's Property Act 1882. That is a long and complicated section: the relevant part is as ... The Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, provided that in every case of a judicial separation a ... ...
  • Burns v Burns
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 July 1983
    ... ... Law of Property Act, 1925, and in the Matter of the Trustees Act, 1925 Burns ... developments since those two cases were decided: (1) The Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act, 1970, was passed on 29th May, 1970, and came ... ...
  • 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 ... There is no longer any issue about that property, which is apparently in the process of being transferred to the wife. In ... ...
  • 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 ... and wife were each asking for an order for the transfer of property under section 24(1)(a) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. The wife wanted ... ...
  • Mountney v Treharne
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 August 2002
    ... ... Introduction ... 1 A property adjustment order is made by way of ancillary relief in matrimonial ... ...
  • Lloyds Bank Plc v Rosset
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 May 1988
    ... ... They decided to buy the property with which this action is concerned: Vincent Farmhouse, Manston Road, ... 11 Unhappily, in the following year there were matrimonial problems. The husband left the property in May 1984 and matrimonial ... ...
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