Sentences with phrase «nisi based»
In 1984, «Litigation» (the former title of this column) rediscovered the Queen's Proctor was still alive when Sir John Arnold, President of the Family Division, rescinded three decrees nisi based on unreasonable behaviour in favour of petitioners who had sworn special procedure affidavits falsely deposing that they and their spouses were not living together.
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In the absence of any answer, Mrs Price filed an application for decree nisi on the basis that the divorce was undefended.
An application to vary or rescind maintenance payments will proceed on the basis of the following principles: the court is to take the amount of maintenance originally ordered as the correct amount at the time the order was made and then to consider to what extent the circumstances of the parties have altered or changed since the decree nisi was granted.
The need for this has been highlighted most poignantly in the recent case of Owens v Owens (2017) EWCA Civ 182, ironically heard by the Court of Appeal on Valentine's Day this year, in which a wife was refused the grant of decree nisi and her appeal dismissed on the basis that the contested allegations of her husband's unreasonable behaviour were at best flimsy.