The Weekly Law Reports
[2001] 3 WLR 684
Court of Appeal
Cowan
v
Cowan
[2001] EWCA Civ 679
2001 March 19,
20;
May 14
May 14
Thorpe, Robert Walker and Mance LJJ
Husband and wife— Financial provision— Lump sum award— Means of parties— Family business built up over long period of marriage— Husband's exceptional entrepreneurial skill— Wife's reasonable requirements no longer relevant criterion— Calculation of effect of equal division as check against discrimination—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s. 25 (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), s. 3)