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Seek help before you help yourself
English family law has previously allowed use in evidence of confidential private documents obtained by one spouse concerning the affairs of the other where it will assist in finding out the full circumstances and wealth of the parties especially where one spouse may be attempting to hide assets or evade disclosure. In a groundbreaking decision on 29th July 2010 the Court of Appeal has now mostly forbidden use of self-help documents and instead imposed stringent duties on those spouses who obtain such documents, and the lawyers who receive them. It will undoubtedly now make it harder to show disclosure where one party seeks to hide assets, and more expensive in costs to ascertain the full facts. It has been called a Cheat’s Charter. See iFLG commentary attached
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 by David Hodson
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