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Family proceedings – Divorce. The Family Division adjourned the wife's claims for a lump sum and for any adjustment of property order and ordered that the husband was to pay the wife maintenance pending suit until decree absolute and, thereafter, periodical payments at the annual rate of £120,000 per annum. Further, in the circumstances, the husband would be ordered to pay all of the wife's costs of and incidental to all proceedings between them in relation to financial matters heard on and since May 2013, to include costs on any occasion reserved, but to exclude all costs in relation to which it had already been ordered that there be no order, such costs (if not agreed) to be subject to detailed assessment on the indemnity basis.
Family proceedings – Divorce. The Family Division adjourned the wife's claims for a lump sum and for any adjustment of property order and ordered that the husband was to pay the wife maintenance pending suit until decree absolute and, thereafter, periodical payments at the annual rate of £120,000 per annum. Further, in the circumstances, the husband would be ordered to pay all of the wife's costs of and incidental to all proceedings between them in relation to financial matters heard on and since May 2013, to include costs on any occasion reserved, but to exclude all costs in relation to which it had already been ordered that there be no order, such costs (if not agreed) to be subject to detailed assessment on the indemnity basis.
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