Subjects:

Family Law, Taxation

Contents:

1. Introductory materials: powers and reliefs: procedure

2. Maintenance pending suit

3. Periodical payments after decree

4. Secured periodical payments

5. Lump sum payments

6. Transfers and settlements of property

7. Variation of settlements

8. Property adjustment and the matrimonial home

9. Pensions

10. Children

11. Failure to maintain

12. Magistrates’

courts

13. Agreements and consent orders

14. Occupation of the matrimonial home

15. Married Women’

s Property Act 1882, s17 etc

16. Prevention and avoidance of dispositions: freezing injunctions: search orders

17. CGT, inheritance tax and income tax

18. Maintenance out of estate

19. Bankruptcy provisions

20. Financial relief after overseas divorce, annulment and legal separation

21. Enforcement

Appendices: material relating to procedure and costs, precedents, income tax, statutory material,

Jackson’s Matrimonial Finance and Taxation is an authoritative specialist text covering all aspects of financial problems arising from the breakdown of a marriage. Providing family law practitioners with an in-depth treatment of the subject, this unique book explains the principles applied by the courts in considering matters of finance, examines those agreements reached by parties out of court, and deals in detail with cases affecting all sections of society.

• The work deals with the making and the effects of orders and agreements and attempts to direct the practitioner to the right order for their client
• Analysis of the latest legislation, including The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2006; Gender Reassignment Act 2006; Civil Partnership Act 2004; Gender Recognition Act 2004; Gender Recognition (Application Fees) Order 2006; and Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
• Comprehensive case law coverage, including the important recent House of Lords decision in Miller and MacFarlane, White v White, and important case law thereafter

The guidance in this book is comprehensive, providing you with coverage of all the relevant areas including: powers and reliefs; transfers and settlements of property; the matrimonial home; pensions offsetting; pensions earmarking and splitting; business and family breakdown; statutory forms; precedents and tables.