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Divorce—Financial provision—Lump sum order

04 November 2010
Issue: 7440 / Categories: Case law , Law reports
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Robson v Robson [2010] EWCA Civ 1171, [2010] All ER (D) 262 (Oct)

Court of Appeal, Civil Division, Ward, Hughes and Patten LJJ,
27 Oct 2010

The Court of Appeal has given guidance on the approach the court should adopt to divorce cases involving substantial inherited wealth.

David Balcombe QC and Nicholas Westley (instructed by Farrer & Co) for the wife., Tim Amos QC and Oliver Wise (instructed by Bircham Dyson Bell LLP) for the husband.

The parties married in 1985, when the husband was 41 and the wife 29. They had two children. The husband had substantial inherited wealth. The marriage broke down in 2006. Decree Absolute was granted in February 2010. The judge considered that important factors were: “(i) the nature and value of the assets, (ii) the lifestyle during the marriage...(iii) the expenditure of the parties during the marriage and their budgets by reference to that and their estimates of future income needs, (iv) the value of properties that were, or might be, suitable for the wife and children, and (v) the

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