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Cohabitation: Fair shares in the family home?
Mark Pawlowski highlights some far-reaching implications arising out of the case law on beneficial ownership ‘The size of the parties’ respective shares upon acquisition will be determined according to the terms of their express trust regardless of their actual contributions to the purchase of the property.’ Let us begin with the following example. Suppose Mr …
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- Bedson v Bedson [1965] 3 All ER 307
- Clarke v Harlowe [2005] WTLR 1473
- Clarke v Meadus [2013] WTLR 199
- Fowler v Barron [2008] WTLR 819
- Goodman v Gallant [1986] 1 All ER 311
- Jones v Kernott [2012] WTLR 125
- Leake (formerly Bruzzi) v Bruzzi [1974] 2 All ER 1196
- Pankhania v Chandegra [2013] WTLR 101
- Pink v Lawrence (1977) 36 P & CR 98
- Re Nicholson (deceased); Nicholson v Perks [1974] 1 WLR 476
- Re Pavlou (a bankrupt) [1993] 3 All ER 955
- Springette v Defoe [1992] 2 FLR 388
- Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17; [2007] WTLR 1053 HL
- Wilson v Wilson [1963] 2 All ER 447
- Wilson v Wilson [1969] 1 WLR 1470
- Yeoman's Row Management Ltd & anor v Cobbe [2008] UKHL 55; [2008] WTLR 1461 HL