Cross-check
82.If the Wife exits the marriage with a total sum of £9,466,452 plus her interest in the Brittany property, she will have received 38.9% of the total matrimonial assets. The liquid assets, however, are £18,110,752. Of that sum, she will receive £8,070,911 or 44.56%. Taking into account the Marriage Contract and all the section 25 circumstances, I am satisfied that this is a correct and appropriate division of the assets. 83.The parties will have to check my arithmetic but I calculate that she already has liquid assets of £4,120,574. She will therefore require a lump sum of £3,950,337 to bring her up to £8,070,911 plus 50% of the Husband’s A Bank Directors’ Pension Scheme. I can see no legitimate reason why the lump sum could not be paid to her offshore but, given that I have taken into account the latent tax on the Guernsey funds, I do not require her to give any undertaking as to the money’s future use. It is therefore up to the Husband how and where he pays the money.
- JUDGMENT
- The relevant history
- The statements and expert reports
- The assets
- The Open Offers
- Wells
- The Law
- White v White
- K v L
- Miller/McFarlane
- Radmacher
- Kremen v Agrest
- Versteegh v Versteegh
- Z v Z (No 2)
- Brack v Brack
- Brack
- SJ v RA
- Duxbury
- The evidence I heard
- My findings as to the Marriage Contract
- The quantification of the assets
- £ 3,284,021
- The Wife’s needs
- £1,395,541
- Cross-check
- Ms D
- Child periodical payments
- CB v KB
- Conclusion
