The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[2018] Ch 450
Court of Appeal
Lewis
v
Warner
Warner
v
Lewis
[2017] EWCA Civ 2182
2017 Dec 7;
19
Sir Geoffrey Vos C, McCombe, Asplin LJJ
Family provision— Dependant— “Reasonable financial provision”— Man and woman living together as husband and wife for 19 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 disposition of estate failing to make “reasonable financial provision” for man— Whether man ineligible for “financial provision” for his “maintenance”— Whether order for transfer of house for full consideration representing financial provision for person’s maintenance—
Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (c 63) (as amended by Law Reform (Succession) Act 1995 (c 41), s 2, Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c 33), s 71, Sch 4, paras 15(2)(6), 18 and Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Act 2014 (c 16), s 6, Sch 2, para 3), ss 1, 2, 3