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White v White

[2000] UKHL 54, [2001] 1 AC 596
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHouse of Lords
Year2001
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

In ancillary relief the overriding objective is fairness, which requires that there be no discrimination between the money-earner and the home-maker/child-carer, and a judge should check any proposed division against the yardstick of equality, departing from it only where there is good reason to do so.

Area of Law

family

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