B v B

Frank O'Donoghue KC & Rachel Lyle (instructed by Bernard Campbell & Co, Solicitors) for the Petitioner

[1]������� The judgment has been anonymised in order to protect the identity of the child of the parties.� For the sake of convenience I shall refer to the petitioner as "the wife" and the respondent as "the husband."

[2]������� The husband and wife married on 25 February 2016.� The wife issued a first divorce petition on 26 April 2018.� On 19 March 2021 the Master stayed this petition and granted leave to the wife to issue a second petition, which she did on 30 July 2021.� The summons for ancillary relief issued on 5 March 2021.�

[3]������� The wife is aged in her late 40s and is in good health.� She has two adult children from her first marriage, both of whom remain in full time education.� The husband is in his early 50s and similarly fit and well.� They first met in 2011 through mutual friends.� At that time she resided in Northern Ireland and he in Scotland.� They began a relationship and became engaged in 2012.

[5]������� In February 2013 the wife was adjudicated bankrupt following the repossession of her home which was in negative equity.� She alleges that she was forced into this course of action by her husband, an allegation he entirely denies.