C v C

����������� In this application the parties were married on the 29 September 1992 and separated in or around October 1998.� A Decree Nisi was pronounced on the 12 November 2001.� Accordingly the parties lived together for 6 years following the marriage.� There are no children of the marriage

There are other minor assets in the case.� The Petitioner owns a house with an equity of �47,000; she also has some shares and other investments adding up to a few thousand pounds.� Valuations were provided of the Petitioner�s parents property in the sum of �400,000.� However, the Petitioner�s parents are relatively young and in good health and I do not feel that this property at this point in time comes into the equation.�

The Petitioner is a bank official earning approximately �25,000 per annum gross with a pension scheme which is not of any significance.� The Respondent was medically discharged from his occupation and received a lump sum of �39,000 and receives an ill health pension of �7,850.00 per annum.

Mr Toner QC for the Petitioner indicated that the Petitioner was seeking somewhere in the region of 30% of the value of these lands.� Mr Long QC for the Respondent said he was not in a position to put any figure forward which his client felt was fair to the Petitioner and indeed it would be �otiose�, to use his term, to do so.�

����������� Mr Long argued that the Petitioner�s financial needs could be met without recourse to this property.� However, Mr Long was not in a position to advise me either how much his client felt the Petitioner was entitled to in this case, if anything, and furthermore no submissions were directed to me as to where the Petitioner�s financial needs could be met from anywhere other than this inherited property.