Roberts v Roberts

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1986
CourtFamily Division
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14 cases
  • Happe v Happe
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 March 1990
    ...which would prevent him receiving it into his hand to be disposed of as he then wishes". 17 The court was then referred to the case of Roberts v. Roberts [1986] 1 W.L.R. 437 where the order made was that the respondent husband "do pay to the petitioner as a lump sum one quarter of the respo......
  • C v C (Ancillary Relief: Trust Fund)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • 25 June 2009
    ...one half of the lump sum pension payment when received by him: see the discussion by Purchas J at pages 288–289. 54 In Roberts v Roberts [1986] 2 FLR 152 at page 156, Wood J, having carefully analysed Morris v Morris (1977) 7 Fam Law 244, Davies v Davies [1986] 1 FLR 497 and Milne v Milne (......
  • Tinsley v Milligan
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1993
    ...again and again, for over two hundred years. It is applicable in courts of equity as well as courts of law: see e.g., the notes to Roberts v. Roberts (1818) Dan. 143, 150–151, and Ayerst v. Jenkins (1873) L.R. 16 Eq. 275, 283, per Lord Selborne L.C. In 1869 Mellor J. said that the maxim in......
  • MT v MT (Financial Provision: Lump Sum)
    • United Kingdom
    • Family Division
    • Invalid date
    ...some cases which suggested that "the foreseeable future" was a relatively short period of from four to five years: see Roberts v Roberts [1986] 1 WLR 437 and Ranson v Ranson [1988] 1 WLR 183, but the observations were obiter. Specified proportions of sums due to a party in periods up to ten......
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