Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am sure that the House is very grateful to the noble Baroness for bringing forward th...

My Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, on skilfully steering this Bi...

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Baroness Deech

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 6, leave out “section” and insert “...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 2, I speak also to Amendments 3, 4, 20A, 21, 22 and 26. What the am...

My Lords, this is an important technical group of amendments, which follow on from the previous g...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to this group of amendments. As the noble Baroness said, a number...

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Baroness Deech

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, after second “1973” insert “as ...

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Baroness Deech

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 19, at end insert—

““relevant...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 5. Consequent on it is whether Clause 2 stands part of the Bil...

My Lords, this amendment, as the noble Baroness said, introduces a definition of a new expression...

My Lords, this next group of amendments, or one amendment and one clause stand part, seeks to imp...

My Lords, I wish to say simply that of course the noble and learned Lord, Lord Walker, is right—t...

I am sure that all noble Lords realise that what the noble Baroness meant by saying that the 1973...

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Baroness Deech

6: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Or...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 6 and in so doing I propose to speak to Amendments 14, 15, 15A...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, for her great efforts to allow the courts to br...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 6 and 15A. As the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, said, Amendmen...

My Lords, I rise to thank the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, for bringing in the Bill and to declare...

My Lords, this amendment in the names of the noble Baronesses, Lady Deech and Lady Wilcox, my nob...

My Lords, the amendments in this group would provide greater clarity about how the court is to ap...

I completely appreciate the Government’s concerns on this. We are united in wanting to ensure tha...

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Baroness Deech

7: Clause 3, page 2, line 16, after “agreement” insert “in wr...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 7, I will speak to Amendments 8 to 13 as well. What binds them toge...

My Lords, I support the concept behind this pillar of the Bill. It is vital that there is more cl...

My Lords, I add my support for prenuptial agreements. I say that in the context that I trained as...

My Lords, I was not intending to speak but I have one or two points to make. When my noble friend...

My Lords, it might surprise the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, to know that I am absolutely with him o...

My Lords, this group of amendments starting with Amendment 7 in the names of the noble Baronesses...

My Lords, this has been a useful and instructive debate on this interesting and significant area....

Would the Minister clarify that he is talking about form E? Form E is an incredibly detailed anal...

I am not seeking to suggest that form E is not an extremely thorough document and I am sure that ...

The noble Lord said that one of the reasons why the Government would introduce the full setting a...

The noble Lord makes an important point. What I did say was that the Government had not yet concl...

My Lords, I am sure that the Minister will agree that the best should not be the enemy of what is...

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Baroness Deech

8: Clause 3, page 2, line 16, leave out from “on” to “unless”...

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Baroness Deech

14: Clause 4, page 3, line 4, leave out “relevant date” and i...

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Baroness Deech

18: Clause 4, page 4, line 1, leave out paragraph (b)

1...

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Baroness Deech

20A: Clause 5, page 4, line 14, leave out subsections (1) and...

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Baroness Deech

23: Clause 5, page 4, line 33, leave out “three” and insert “...

My Lords, Amendments 23 to 25 are all about what we specialists call periodical payments, which, ...

My Lords, I welcome all the noble Baroness’s amendments. They seem sensible and the principle of ...

My Lords, on the footballer point, I suggest that noble Lords should look at carefully at the tea...

My Lords, the amendments deal with Clause 5 and periodical payments. Amendment 23 concerns the po...

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Baroness Deech

24: Clause 5, page 4, line 34, after “divorce” insert “, such...