McGrath - the inaccuracy of your comment, given the origin of the partial quote, is not up to your usual standards.

Seayaker - not yet: it remains to be seen.

Jacqui - a fault of the original separation. Certainly I would have advised (if I did matrimonial) a nominal maintenance order that could later be varied. When my late wife separated from her first husband and got a decree of JS, maintenance was provided for and could in theory have later been varied or enforced.

Kendall - your agreement about disposition of the house proceeds should have provided for CGT to come off the top before division.

The defects demonstrated are not faults of the law but of the arrangements made.