Atkinson v Atkinson

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Periodical payments order — Variation — Application to reduce amount of periodical payments — Wife in receipt of substantial periodical payments cohabiting with man on low income — Cohabitee capable of earning much more — Wife and cohabitee intending to remain unmarried — Husband's application to reduce periodical payments to nominal sum — Whether cohabitation decisive factor on application — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 31(7)(a) (as substituted by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984, s 6(3))

[1988] Fam 93; [1988] 2 WLR 205