Moher v Moher

Subject Matter

MARRIAGE — Divorce — Financial provision — Judge finding husband failing to disclose full extent of financial resources in financial remedy proceedings — Judge ordering husband to pay wife lump sum with interest thereon and to make periodical payments until grant of religious divorce — Whether judge failing adequately to quantify true extent of husband’s financial resources — Whether judge having power to order lump sum with interest and periodical payments — Whether wrong in principle to link periodical payments to grant of religious divorce — Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c 18) (as amended by Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c 53), s 16 and Divorce (Religious Marriages) Act 2002 (c 27), s 1(1)), ss 10A, 23

[2019] EWCA Civ 1482; [2020] Fam 160; [2020] 2 WLR 89; [2020] 1 FLR 225; [2019] WLR (D) 489, CA

Commentary

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BBC
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