Ashley v Blackman

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Periodical payments order — Variation — Parties of very limited means — Wife receiving supplementary benefit — Wife's income unaffected by any variation — Whether “clean break” principle to be applied — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 31(7) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 6(3))

[1988] Fam 85; [1988] 3 WLR 222