The Weekly Law Reports
[1982] 3 WLR 86
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
In re ABBOTT (A BANKRUPT), Ex parte TRUSTEE OF THE PROPERTY OF THE BANKRUPT v. ABBOTT (P.M.)
[No. 8 of 1980]
1981 Oct. 20,
21,
22;
Dec. 21
Dec. 21
Sir Robert Megarry V.-C. and Peter Gibson J.
Bankruptcy
— Void settlement
— Matrimonial home
— Wife joint owner of house
— Divorce proceedings
— Wife's claim to property adjustment order transferring house to her
— Compromise of claim
— Wife's relinquishment of rights in return for money on sale of house
— Husband's bankruptcy
— Whether wife “purchaser … for valuable consideration”
—
Bankruptcy Act 1914 (4 & 5, Geo. 5, c. 59), s. 42 (1)
[1]
—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18), ss. 24, 39
[2]