B v B

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Counsel for the Applicant: MR DYER QC AND MR NOSWORTHY The Respondent appeared In Person ____________________

The issue of income and earning capacity and the financial resources that the parties have, or are likely to have in the foreseeable future, has been the centrepiece of this case and the matter I will return to in detail.

The standard of living was fairly luxurious. The parties lived in a substantial home in Cheshire, a house with some history, valued at the time of these proceedings at �1.5 million. They had owned a house in the south of France in addition of a similar value. Mr B drove a Bentley motor car and the indications I have is that this family enjoyed a very high standard of living when things were going well.

Mr B is 46 years of age and, as I have indicated, this is his second marriage. Mrs B is 36 years of age and is now pregnant by her boyfriend � indeed, by the time this judgment is delivered may have already given birth. They were therefore together for eight and a half years.