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Crossley v Crossley

Mr Charles Howard, QC and Ms Susan Wilkins for the wife; Mr James Turner, QC and Mr Deepak Nagpal for the husband

A judge had a discretionary power in ancillary relief proceedings to require a party to show good cause why a prenuptial agreement should not govern the division of assets on the dissolution of the marriage.

The Court of Appeal so held in dismissing an appeal brought by the wife, Susan Mary Crossley, against the decision of Mr Justice Bennett ([2007] EWHC 3114 (Fam)) when he ordered that neither she nor the husband, Stuart James Crossley, had to produce the customary documentation on disclosure of assets and neither was to prepare a questionnaire under the Family Proceedings Rules (SI 1991 No 1247 (L20)).


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