ABSTRACT
Quantum is always the most difficult part of ancillary relief: the basic law is straightforward and logical enough, but assembling any ancillary relief package, whether in a capital or income context, challenges many an academic and vocational student alike. The underlying problem is lack of practical experience, very often both of money and how household budgets and financing a family work in practice, and also of how to fit together the various provisions of ss 22-31 of the Matrimonial Causes Act (MCA) 1973.
