WSY v WSX

In these cross-appeals in the General Division of the High Court (Family Division), a husband and a wife appealed against a district judge's orders on the division of matrimonial assets and maintenance following a 19-year marriage that produced three daughters, raising issues including whether the marriage was dual-income or single-income for the application of the structured approach in ANJ v ANK, whether an adverse inference should be drawn, and the reasonableness of the maintenance orders. The court considered the proper identification and valuation of the marital partnership's material gains. The court allowed the husband's appeal to the extent that no adverse inference was drawn against him, $94,536.04 was notionally added back to the pool under the wife's sole-name assets, and child maintenance was set at $4,320 per month plus tuition fees, and allowed the wife's appeal to the extent that all assets including sole-name assets were liable to division and that $54,000 in lump sum maintenance be paid in cash, with each party to bear its own costs.