Reasonable Financial Provision

Reform of Financial Provision on Divorce

Reform of Financial Provision on Divorce

What’s the problem? After much hesitation and delay, both from the government and the profession, it seems that at last the Law Commission will set to reforming the law of financial provision on divorce. The significant problems of this area were addressed, but not completely resolved, in the Law

A Reply to Baroness Deech’s Argument for Reform

A Reply to Baroness Deech’s Argument for Reform

Conceived as a companion piece to Baroness Deech’s article calling for reform of s 25(2) MCA 1973,[[1]] it soon became clear that writing this was a harder task than I envisaged. That is not because the article is not well written, researched or persuasive. My difficulties were

Kaur v Singh and Others [2023] EWHC 304 (Fam)

Judgment date: 14 February 2023 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2023/304.html Peel J. Claim under the Inheritance Act 1975 for reasonable financial provision from her deceased husband under Part 8 of the CPR. The claim was undefended. The claimant sought half of the estate which