D. McC. v M. McC
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1986 |
| Date | 01 January 1986 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
Beneficial interest -Wife seeking a declaration of interest in husband's house.
A wife, the plaintiff and appellant, who had contributed to the cost of a previous matrimonial home, was agreed to have been entitled to one-third of the net proceeds of its sale, which had been £1,800. The husband went on to acquire another house for £9,000, but under an arrangement with his employer he did not pay for the acquisition but merely discharged the mortgage repayments on a loan. The sum of £1,800 was, with the wife's consent, expended on furniture. The wife sought a declaration that she was entitled to a share of one-eighteenth in the new house, a fraction that was a simplification of the calculation 600/10,800, where the numerator represented her share of the proceeds of sale and the denominator the addition of the costs of the new house and its furniture. In the High Court [1981 No. 357 Sp], Costello J. rejected this contention and found that the wife's interest was confined to a...
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