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Spousal maintenance: A system of Russian roulette?
Sital Fontenelle and Elizabeth Burch consider the different approaches to spousal maintenance and whether a formula for maintenance would provide clarity ‘Duxbury is clearly still the starting point – and currently the favoured approach by judges, however there is increasing interest in exploring alternative methods.’ How much and for how long is a standard question …
Cases Referenced
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- C v C [2018] EWHC 3186 (Fam)
- Duxbury v Duxbury [1990] 2 All ER 77
- Fournier v Fournier [1998] 2 FLR 990
- HC (by her litigation friend) v FW [2017] EWHC 3162 (Fam)
- Quan v Bray & ors [2018] EWHC 3558 (Fam)
- SS v NS (Spousal Maintenance) [2014] EWHC 4183 (Fam)
- Tattersall v Tattersall [2018] EWCA Civ 1978
- Waggott v Waggott [2018] EWCA Civ 727
- WG v HG [2018] EWFC 84