Galloway v Goldstein

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Marriage — Declaration of marital status — Valid marriage taking place abroad — Second marriage ceremony in England resulting in registration of marriage in England — Divorce taking place and financial relief ordered in same jurisdiction as first marriage ceremony — Whether second ceremony of any legal effect — Whether decree of nullity appropriate — Whether appropriate to grant declaration that parties’ marriage not subsisting after date of divorce — Whether declaration to be granted that second ceremony of no legal effect — Family Law Act 1986, ss 55(1)(c), 58(5)

[2012] EWHC 60 (Fam); [2012] Fam 129; [2012] 2 WLR 1003; [2012] 1 FLR 1254, Fam D