Fletcher v Fletcher

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Appeal from — Remission of arrears — Periodical payments order made by justices — Husband's application for variation and remission of arrears — Parties living on supplementary benefit — Justices reducing amounts and remitting half arrears — Whether jurisdiction to remit arrears on appeal by originating motion — Whether proper to make substantial maintenance order — Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978, s 29(1) — Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, ss 95, 111

[1985] Fam 92; [1985] 2 WLR 985