L.B. v H.B.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1980
• Date: 01 January 1980
• Court: High Court

(H.C.)

L.B

and

H.B

Foreign divorce - Decree obtained by collusion - Whether decree invalid - Whether parties domiciled in State where decree was obtained - Whether court should recognise decree - Whether dwelling shared by parties to be regarded as a family home - Whether wife entitled to maintenance from husband - Family Home Protection Act, 1976, (No. 27), s. 2.

The parties married in 1947, the wife being a British citizen and the husband a citizen of the United States of America. They lived for some years in France. By 1957 both parties decided to obtain a divorce, and a petition was obtained from the French courts in 1958. In July, 1957, the parties entered into a property settlement in which the husband agreed to pay the wife a certain sum of alimony and to provide her with a house for her life. Evidence was given that such a settlement, made before the final divorce decree, was not...