Recorded Webinar: After Its All Over – Counting the Cost of Contributions in Family Law Property Matters

The assessment of contributions remains a fraught area in family law, particularly when dealing with initial contributions, windfalls and post-separation contributions. This session assumes you know the basics and instead examines the more difficult aspects of assessing contributions, including:

• Relevance of timing of contribution:

  • Value of initial contribution

  • Are later contributions given more weight?

• What constitutes a post separation contribution and when do you have to disclose? Spotlight on:

  • Significant increases in income

  • Bonuses

  • Growth and development of assets

• Treatment of windfalls and inheritances

• Contributions and the role of comparable cases – lessons from Wallis Manning

• Case law update, including Pandelis and Pandelis