ancillary relief

The case was an application for financial support on divorce, known to lawyers as ancillary relief.

A family lawyer who specialises in complex ancillary relief cases and those involving children.

These are known as "ancillary relief" (see below) that are requested by one or both of the parties.

This section empowers the court to order the sale of property for the purpose of ancillary relief.

The firm has an established reputation for undertaking 'big money' ancillary relief disputes acting on behalf of international spouses.

The firm is recognised for its pre-eminence in areas of family law such as divorce, ancillary relief, children, cohabitation, adoption and public law.

When the Dennistouns divorced, Mr. Dennistoun could not pay ancillary relief.

Brethertons is developing a niche representing professional footballers in ancillary relief, and is known for its work in collaborative law.

In English law, an application for financial relief following the presentation of a petition for divorce, nullity or judicial separation is described as ancillary relief.

"Not for the first time I have here been faced with ancillary relief litigation conducted at ruinous expense to the parties," said Mr Justice Munby.

Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, which sets out the basis for divorce (part i) and how the courts deal with financial issues, known as ancillary relief (part ii)

Hanne & Co has acted for many high net worth ancillary relief matters alongside firms such as Withers and Mishcon de Reya.

However, it seems clear from Lord Nicholls' leading speech that he intended much of what he said to apply to all ancillary relief cases, and not just big money ones.

A brilliant courtroom speech by Norman Birkett persuaded the jury to decide to disregard the agreement of Mr Dennistoun to pay ancillary relief to his former wife.

The grounds for divorce may be decided by a jury or by a judge, all other ancillary relief is considered Equity (law) in nature and must be decided by the judge alone.

This would mean that a marriage did exist; but doubtless it would not be beyond the wit of the courts to arrange things so that the question of ancillary relief received short shrift.

During the divorce proceedings Mrs Flint applied for ancillary relief and in July 1990 an order was made under s 24 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, transferring the matrimonial home to her.

The appeal turned on whether the Witwatersrand Local Division (WLD) had had the jurisdiction to entertain an action by the appellant against the respondent for the payment of certain sums of money and ancillary relief.

Head of the family practice group at St John's Chambers, Sharp "is widely known for his expertise in high-value ancillary relief cases in which he is equally at home negotiating multimillion-pound settlements or fighting them in court".

In 2007 she moved to work in the family department of Brachers solicitors, the largest solicitors in Kent where she specialised in divorce, ancillary relief, cohabitation disputes, children's residence and contact cases, many of which were complex with international aspects.

Following the breakdown of their marriage in 1994, the wife petitioned for divorce and applied for ancillary relief so as to cede the farms to the husband and seek a lump sum of £2.2m to enable her to continue farming on her own.

Judge Gary Taylor of the Federal District Court in Santa Ana, Calif., ordered a March 28 hearing to answer his questions about "the appropriateness of not seeking additional remedies or ancillary relief," a copy of his Feb. 26 order shows.

White v White [2001] (House of Lords) is a divorce (ancillary relief) case with regards to the court's wide discretion of lump sum award between Martin White and Pamela White who are both farmers and married in 1961.