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What am I entitled to in a divorce settlement?

Date:13 DEC 2018
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Jeetesh Patel, a partner at Hodge Jones & Allen, is normally asked this question straight away. Unfortunately a definite answer cannot be given without receiving detailed financial information from both parties to a marriage. The courts approach in England and Wales is to divide the assets in a marriage on the basis of “fairness” and “reasonableness”. These can come across as woolly phrases to a client, writes Patel.

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