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Assessment of needs and earning capacity
  • 27 Aug 2015

    LEMS v. LCTN

    Citation
    LEMS v. LCTN
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC14731/2010

    Leave to appeal was refused because the judge was satisfied the intended appeal had no reasonable prospect of success and there was no other reason in the interests of justice: the trial judge had considered and addressed the contested issues (earning capacity, living standard, needs, possible inheritance), made credible factual findings and calculations (including Duxbury), and the exercise of discretion to order a clean break and dismiss periodical spousal maintenance fell within the generous ambit of reasonable disagreement and was not plainly wrong.