Course description
With house prices reaching record levels and unprecedented interest rates on mortgages, keeping hold of the family home in divorce proceedings is becoming more difficult but increasingly necessary. Those with children in particular need help in maintaining stability for themselves and their children.
Whether you are keeping the property or preserving an interest in it, proper negotiation to protect your interest is crucial. This webinar will focus on ways in which interests can be determined, calculated and preserved.
It will also consider what happens at an interim stage, and the court’s power to order a sale under the MCA 1973 and associated legislation. Join Barrister Daniel Hooker for practical advice and tips to foresee and overcome typical problem areas.
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Introduction
With house prices reaching record levels and unprecedented interest rates on mortgages, keeping hold of the family home in divorce proceedings is becoming increasingly difficult but increasingly necessary. Those with children in particular need help in maintaining stability for themselves and their children.
No matter if you are keeping the property or preserving an interest in it, proper negotiation to protect your interest is crucial. This webinar will focus on ways in which interests can be determined, calculated and preserved. It will also look at modern trigger events and comment on those now considered as becoming archaic.
This webinar will also consider what happens at an interim stage and the court’s power to order a sale under the MCA 1973 and associated legislation.
There will be practical advice and tips to try to foresee and overcome typical problem areas, particularly pre-FDR.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- The court’s power to preserve and/or sell the family home at both an interim stage and final hearing
- The court’s approach to preserving the family home and the criteria to be applied
- How best the parties’ respective interests are calculated
- Trigger events and how to avoid them
- What to do if a trigger event has occurred and the other party is refusing to sell
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