The court considered the effect of delay in bringing a claim for ancillary relief in divorce proceedings: ‘There are certain detrimental consequences of delay. The first is that delay engenders bitterness and hostility between the parties which is detrimental to the whole family and in particular to any children of the family . . delay inevitably increases costs . . further with the change in property values and with inflation as it is in our present economic situation, as well as with the change in the parties’ own situations and the commitments that they take upon themselves, the whole case can be materially altered and the ability of the parties to cope with any orders that the Court might otherwise properly have made upon the merits of a case may be put in jeopardy’.
Citations:
(1984) 14 Fam Law 154
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Cited – G v G and Another FdNI 25-Oct-2003
There had been a long but argumentative marriage, and the parties disputed distribution of the assets on an ancillary relief application.
Held: The husband could not claim to discount shareholdings as a minority shareholding where he also . .
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Family
Updated: 10 May 2022; Ref: scu.235258
