Property
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Securing Property Situated Outside the Jurisdiction of England and Wales for the Benefit of Minor Children
Readers may not be familiar with an issue that has occasionally troubled the courts: the exercise of parental responsibility by a parent of a minor child to secure for the child’s benefit property, assets or income to which the child is entitled and which is situated outside the court’s jurisdiction in a foreign land.
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- Overseas Assets
- Property
!13/03/2024 07:00
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Fair Shares? Sorting Out Money and Property on Divorce
For the 100,000 couples who divorce annually in England and Wales, the financial arrangements they make can determine the future standard of living that they and their children will have. Yet, only a third of them use the legal system to reach a financial settlement, with the remaining two-thirds negotiating their own arrangements or, worse, reaching no settlement at all. Despite numerous calls to reform the law on this issue, very little is known about the detail of how couples negotiate settlements, or of how these work out.
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- divorce
- Property
!27/03/2023 09:45
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Oil on Troubled Waters
Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648 is another dispute in the seemingly never-ending conveyor-belt of cases about real ownership of a home. The property – Picnic House – (the litigation being anything but a picnic) was upon its acquisition i…
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- TOLATA
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- Trusts
!05/01/2023 23:12