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fund of £10.5 million. Having said that, they point out that the Husband’s offer is £25 million not £18.5 million. They do then argue that the Wife should be penalised for her wanton and excessive spending since the breakdown of the marriage, noting that she has spent £900,000 on her adult children even though she agreed their client had no obligation towards them and that her spending this year, if annualised, would amount to £6 million.43.The Wife’s document, filed on her behalf by Mr Todd QC and Mr Sear, argues that the marriage was a partnership marriage and the assets were matrimonial from the very outset. The transfers to her in early 2017 made those assets her separate property, as there could not have been any reserved benefit to the Husband. Unless he was attempting to defraud HMRC, they must be hers (see
- MR JUSTICE MOOR:-
- The relevant history
- The litigation
- Valuation evidence
- Final open proposals
- The Assets Schedule
- Property Particulars
- Costs
- The respective Position Statements
- Duxbury
- Tinker v Tinker
- Lambert
- The Law I must apply
- White v White
- K v L
- Miller/McFarlane
- Hart v Hart
- Miller
- Jones v Jones
- Martin
- WM v HM
- my emphasis)
- Sharp v Sharp
- S v AG
- S v S
- Vaughan
- FB v PS
- The factual issues
- Sharp
- VV v VV
