The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[2017] Ch 13
Lewis
v
Warner
Warner
v
Lewis
[2016] EWHC 1787 (Ch)
2016 June 21;
July 18
Newey J
Family provision— Dependant— “Reasonable financial provision”— Man and woman living together as husband and wife for 20 years in her house— Woman dying and leaving estate to her daughter in her will— Daughter claiming possession of house— Man having means to buy house— Whether ineligible for “financial provision” for his “maintenance”— Whether arrangement for full consideration representing financial provision for a person’s maintenance— Whether disposition of estate failing to make reasonable provision for man—
Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (c 63) (as amended by Law Reform (Succession) Act 1995 (c 41), s 2(4) and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c 33), s 71, Sch 4, para 18), ss 1(2)(b), 3(2A)