Robinson v Robinson

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Justices — Financial provision — Conduct of parties — Wife's desertion — Husband not responsible for break-up of marriage — Wife's application for maintenance — Magistrates' finding that wife's conduct “gross and obvious misconduct” of gravest importance to marriage — Whether “just” to take wife's conduct into account in considering financial provision — Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978, ss 2(1)(a), 3(1)(g)

[1983] Fam 42; [1983] 2 WLR 146