The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2018] Fam 93
Court of Appeal
Hart
v
Hart
[2017] EWCA Civ 1306
2017 May 11;
Aug 31
Aug 31
Lloyd Jones, Beatson, Moylan LJJ
Marriage— Divorce— Financial provision— Identification of assets— “Non-matrimonial property”— Build-up of husband’s assets in decades prior to marriage— Judge awarding wife over one third of capital assets following parties’ separation in financial remedies order—Whether equal division of assets appropriate— Guidelines on court’s approach to non-matrimonial and matrimonial property when applying sharing principle—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s 25(2) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c 42), ss 3, 48(2) and amended by Pensions Act 1995 (c 26), s 166(2) and Pensions Act 2008 (c 30), s 120, Sch 6, para 4)