L v L (Divorce: Maintenance)

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Maintenance — Divorce — Settlement — Successive applications — Consent summons — Wife's prayer for maintenance dismissed on lump sum payment by husband — Agreement sanctioned by the court — New Act enlarging time during which power of court to order maintenance exercisable — Subsequent application by wife — Jurisdiction of court — Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act, 1958, s 1

[1962] P 101; [1961] 3 WLR 544; [1961] 3 All ER 20, PDA

[1962] P 101; [1961] 3 WLR 1182; [1961] 3 All ER 834, CA

PRACTICE — Consent summons — Effect — Divorce — Wife's prayer for maintenance dismissed on lump sum payment by husband — Subsequent application for maintenance — Whether sanction of court to agreement mere formality

[1962] P 101; [1961] 3 WLR 544; [1961] 3 All ER 20, PDA

[1962] P 101; [1961] 3 WLR 1182; [1961] 3 All ER 834, CA

Appellate History