Publisher's Synopsis
Using "Matrimonial Property and Finance" the reader will receive advice on how to: calculate a client's claim; come to a reasonable settlement to your client's advantage; protect the home against creditors; deal with taxation hurdles and pension problems; and make appropriate arrangements for child support.;Volume 1 examines the law and practice, covering the rights and obligations of couples in the context of subsisting marriages. It also analyzes the principles on which the court acts in distributing the assets following a breakdown of the marriage, with a blow-by-blow account of procedural steps from Form M13 to final enforcement.;Volume 2 comprises all the relevant source material to complement Volume 1. This volume is now updated, providing coverage of: the Finance Act 1993; the seminal property law cases of 1993, including Barclays Bank v O'Brien (CA), Huntingford v Hobbs (CA), and Tinsley v Milligan (HL); the latest case law on pensions, including B v B (1993), Ewbank J (pension-splitting); Marsh v Marsh (1993), CA (appeals); all other reported cases of note on matrimonial finance since June 1992; recent amendments to the Family Proceedings Rules; updated text of the Child Support Act regulations, including the Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions (Amendment) Order SI 1993/966 (clarifying the meaning of "pending application" and "written agreement") and the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations, SI 1993/913; and new mathematical tools for converting income to capital and vice versa.;A feature in this year's Volume 2 is a suite of Child Support Act ready-reckoners enabling the practitioner to present figures to the court without the aid of a computer.
