The Weekly Law Reports
[1979] 3 WLR 818
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
In re
BEAUMONT, DECD.
MARTIN v. MIDLAND BANK TRUST CO. LTD. AND OTHERS
[1977 B. No. 7055]
1979 May 17,
18,
21;
25
Sir Robert Megarry V.-C.
Family Provision
— Dependant
— Maintained by deceased
— Couple living as man and wife
— Home owned by woman
— Man paying for accommodation and contributing to household budget
— Whether assumption of responsibility by woman for man's maintenance
— Arrangements “immediately” before death
— Whether “substantial contribution” towards maintenance “otherwise than for full valuable consideration”
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Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (c. 63), ss. 1 (1) (e) (3), 3 (4)
Practice
— Chancery Division
— Summonses
— Adjournment to judge
— Whether summonses to be heard first
— Considerations where difficult point of law raised
—
R.S.C., Ord. 32, r. 14 (1)