Publisher's Synopsis
The industry standard on marriage, the home and money. Practitioners can rely on it to help them: calculate a client's claim come to a reasonable settlement to the client's advantage protect the home against creditors deal with taxation hurdles and pension problems make appropriate arrangements for child support.;Volume 1 examines the law and practice concerning property rights within existing family relationships (including the all important position of lenders) and the principles on which the court acts in distributing the assets following a breakdown of the marriage. Volume 2 comprises all the relevant source material, including tax and financial information; pensions; RPI and house prices; mathematical formulae; capitalisation tables; child support ready reckoners and more.;This edition incorporates: the latest cases including Barclays Bank plc v O'Brien, CIBC v Pitt, Frary, H v P, Brooks, Pounds and Ridehalgh v Horsefield, observations on the Green Paper; a review of the Child Support Agency; changes to the CSA formula and phasing-in implemented by the Child Support Regulations; tax changes; revised National Insurance and social security rates; child support tables and key economic indicators.
