News & Publications: April 2015
The Right to Manage – can an RTM Company manage more than one building?
April 23rd, 2015
The right to manage was introduced by the Commonhold and leaseholder Reform Act 2002, which created the ability for a “right to manage” company (‘RTM company’) to be formed and exercise the management functions contained in the leases, such as insuring the block and collecting service charges. This right is exercisable in respect of a […]
The Bats of Law: Unmarried couples and property ownership
April 17th, 2015
Unmarried couples who own their own home and split up face real difficulty in determining their shares in their property where they do not agree. The couple do not have the same legal statutory rights as a divorcing couple. It is important to remember that there is no legal concept of common law wife or, […]
Leave thy lascivious wassails
April 8th, 2015
Anthony & Cleopatra Act I, sc4 Add-backs and the case of MAP v MFP (2015) EWHC 627 (Fam) In February 2015 the High Court heard the wife’s financial remedy claim, the wife having the initials MAP. She was aged 60. Her husband, MFP, was 62. It was a long marriage of forty years until separation […]