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K v L: CA 13 May 2011

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

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedS 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

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