Description: Our family team advises and represents clients in all types of family matters including divorce, co-habitee disputes, children and financial disputes.

?Ancillary relief? is the expression used by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 to describe the orders a court can make to resolve financial issues between parties to divorce or judicial separation proceedings. These orders include:
property transfer orders, i.e. transferring title to property to one or other of the other or the parties.
lump sum orders, i.e. requiring one party to pay the other a capital sum.
periodical payments, i.e. maintenance. Usually this will be from spouse to the other. The courts have only very limited jurisdiction to order payment of maintenance in respect of a child as being principally the function of the Child Support Agency.
pension transfer orders, i.e. splitting the sum of the pension fund to one party and putting it into a pension fund for the other.

Our firm was established following the demerger of Bevan Ashford?s two separate practices on 31 October 2004 and embodies the Exeter, Plymouth, London (Northumberland Avenue), Taunton, Tiverton and Bristol (Temple Quay) offices.

Ashfords' South West origins go back to the 19th Century and we still act for many long established firms and families in the region together with an ever growing list of clients across the UK and abroad.

Category: Devon

Url: http://www.ashfords.co.uk/

Date: 6 Mar 2006

Current Rating: 10.00

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