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Category: Financial Remedy Proceedings
Does the financial fallout from Covid-19 on your assets and income qualify as a an ‘entirely unforseen’ Barder Event?
The case of Barder shows the rare circumstances in which a divorce award can be varied after it has been made. In the case of Barder, the wife received a settlement which provided for her and her two children
An Occupation Order is an Order of the court stating who can and who cannot occupy premises.
It is usually brought alongside an application for a Non-Molestation Injunction and it excludes a spouse from entering or cohabiting in the family home.
The Barder principle comes from the 1987 case of Barder v Barder, and allows a family law court to exercise its discretion to grant leave to appeal a Consent Order or a Final Order, out of time. For such an appeal to succeed, certain conditions must be satisfied