Hamilton v Hamilton

Subject Matter

HUSBAND AND WIFE — Financial provision — Lump sum award — Consent order that wife pay husband five “lump sums” over time — Whether necessarily constituting order for payment of lump sum by instalments — Whether court having jurisdiction to construe order so as to reflect underlying agreement between parties — Whether on facts to be construed as order for payment of lump sum by instalments — Whether court having jurisdiction to vary — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, ss 23(1)(c)(3)(c), 31(1)

[2013] Fam 292; [2013] 2 WLR 1440

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