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Matrimonial home treated like other assets for sharing
No inference to be drawn from title being in joint names
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Adoption granted to prevent challenge to other orders
Court allows applications by children's aunt and her husband
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Holiday leave refused where risk of children not returning
No adequate safeguards if removed to Algeria
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Pre-matrimonial assets as special circumstances
Case also discusses needs justifying periodical allowance
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Court sets out threshold test for permanence order
Legislation criticised as sheriff's decision upheld
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Contact restoration outweighed by mother and child's opposition
Indirect contact allowed though direct not in best interests
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Succession Act brings in the divorce effect
[Provisions for spouses to be revoked on divorce or annulment]
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Sheriff principal wrong to overturn refusal of contact
Case should in any event have been reheard of new
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Pre-cohabitation payment can be factor in financial claim
Ultimate basis of fairness should mean sheriff has discretion
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Agreement not unfair despite unequal division
Party challenging had preferred security and peace of mind
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Expert evidence ruled inadmissible in relocation case
Kennedy v Cordia tests applied to exclude psychological reports
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Conduct of farm business did not determine farm ownership
Wife fails with property claim but wins periodical allowance
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Mediation protection held not relevant to child abduction
Acquiescence established in children being brought to UK
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Children “in transit” still habitually resident in Scotland
Court retained jurisdiction to make s 11 order
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Contact held in child's interests despite father's offending
Ethnic mix held important in retaining parent-child link
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Ten month delay did not vitiate contact refusal
Lapse of time did not alter substance, sheriff principal rules
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Maintenance payments: ascribed to arrears first?
Court holds intention was to meet current payments
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Relocation bid fails to get off the ground
Sheriff questions how case ever reached proof stage
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“Sham” separation allegation rejected in assets claim
Action to reduce alienations fails on residence grounds
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Time bar bullet
Front rank defence to s.28
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Division of sale: absolute remedy?
Not according to Fraser v Fraser
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Cross-border divorces
Advice shifts after Pitchford decision
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Maintenance Orders Act 1950
Clarity emerges over application
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Impact of DNA refusal
This can counter paternity presumption