Jones v Jones

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Lump sum award — Assessment of lump sum payment to wife — Husband bringing company into ten-year marriage — Company sold shortly after separation at vastly increased value — Whether husband's earning capacity to be treated as asset — Whether to be capitalised — Correct approach to division of assets into matrimonial and non-matrimonial assets — Relevance of earning capacities to fair distribution of assets — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, s 25

[2009] EWHC 2654 (Fam), Fam D

[2011] EWCA Civ 41; [2012] Fam 1; [2011] 3 WLR 582; [2011] 1 FLR 1723; [2011] WLR (D) 26, CA

Appellate History