The Weekly Law Reports
[2000] 3 WLR 1505
[COURT OF APPEAL]
JONES
v.
JONES
2000 March 30;
June 29
June 29
Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P., Thorpe and Mance L.JJ. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P. and Thorpe L.J.
Husband and Wife
— Financial provision
— Periodical payments order
— Variation
— Consent order specifying term of periodical payments
— No direction precluding wife from seeking extension of term of order
— Wife's application for extension before expiry of term
— Whether jurisdiction to vary order after expiry of term
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Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18), ss. 28(1A), 31(1) (as inserted and amended by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42), ss. 5(2), 6)