01/03/2010

Wife seeks increased maintenance 25 years after divorce

The Daily Telegraph reports that Philippa Vaughan, the former wife of a barrister, is this week applying to the Court of Appeal in an effort to reinstate, at a higher sum, maintenance payments that were terminated in a hearing last year.

The couple were married in 1967 and divorced in 1985. The husband, David Vaughan QC, was originally ordered to pay maintenance of £27,000 per year. Last year Mrs Vaughan applied for a lump sum of £560,000 on the basis that the original award was inadequate.

Although a Deputy High Court Judge dismissed the application and terminated the original maintenance award, Mrs Vaughan’s appeal against that order will be heard this week.

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