The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2002] Fam 97
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
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Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s. 25 (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), s. 3)