H’s appeal against an ancillary relief order for payment of lump sum allowing clean break.
Held: Wilson LJ said: ‘a special contribution arises in circumstances in which a spouse’s contribution, direct or indirect, to the creation of matrimonial property has been so extraordinary as to dictate a departure within the sharing principle from the ordinary consequence of its equal division. ‘
Judges:
Laws, Jacob, Wilson LJJ
Citations:
[2011] EWCA Civ 550, [2011] 2 FCR 597
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – S v AG (Financial Remedy: Lottery Prize) FD 14-Oct-2011
The court considered how to treat a lottery win of andpound;500,000 in the context of an ancillary relief application on a divorce.
Held: The answers in such cases must be fact specific. ‘In the application of the sharing principle (as opposed . .
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Family
Updated: 12 September 2022; Ref: scu.439735