The Weekly Law Reports
[2019] 4 WLR 83
Family Court
XW
v
XH (Financial Remedy: Non-matrimonial Assets)
[2017] EWFC 76
2017 June 12–16, 19–23; Dec 21
Baker J
Marriage— Divorce— Financial provision— Wife’s claim for financial provision following divorce— Husband’s bringing great wealth to marriage through dramatic increase in value of business shareholding during short marriage where both parties had held and retained significant unilateral assets— Wife and child’s needs met without sharing husband’s unilateral assets equally— Whether court to depart from principle of equality— Whether election of property regime in Italian marriage certificate constituting agreement to adopt Italian law— Comparison of election to property regime with common law pre-marital agreements— Whether court to attach weight to agreement— Whether value of husband’s shareholding to be excluded from marital acquest— Whether valuation of original shareholding brought into marriage to take account of latent potential— Whether husband’s business success amounting to “special contribution”
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