The Weekly Law Reports
[2003] 2 WLR 631
Court of Appeal
Lambert
v
Lambert
[2002] EWCA Civ 1685
2002 Oct 14,
15;
Nov 14
Nov 14
Thorpe, May LJJ and Bodey J
Husband and wife
— Financial provision
— Lump sum award
— Means of parties
— Large family assets built up over long period of marriage
— Husband running business while wife looking after home
— Whether husband's contribution to marriage special
— Whether equal division of assets appropriate
—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s. 25 (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), s. 3)