The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 3 WLR 1038
Court of Appeal
Villiers
v
Villiers
[2022] EWCA Civ 772
2022 Jan 26, 27; June 10
Moylan, Coulson, Arnold LJJ
Marriage— Financial provision— Order— Wife applying for financial provision order on ground husband failing to provide reasonable maintenance— Whether failure to provide reasonable maintenance to be determined as at date of application or date of hearing— Whether refusal of application on new ground procedurally unfair— Whether husband’s common law duty to maintain wife relevant to court’s exercise of discretion to make order—
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18), s 27