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Legislative protection of spouses in family property
One body of law, two question formats. The essay was set word for word in two sittings; the statutory-declaration problem — the bank told “my wife is dead to me” that took a declaration of death instead of asking — was set in two others.
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Sections in the full LawShortcut model answer:
- Reading the question
- Issue 1 — The position before 1976
- Issue 2 — Section 3 of the Family Home Protection Act 1976
- Issue 3 — “Family home” and “conveyance”
- Issue 4 — Who may invoke section 3, and what consent means
- Issue 5 — The purchaser or mortgagee in good faith
- Issue 6 — Dispensing with consent; the limitation period
- Issue 7 — Separation and divorce: property adjustment
- Issue 8 — The Succession Act 1965: protection on death
- Issue 9 — Civil partners and cohabitants under the 2010 Act
- Issue 10 — Is the protection adequate?
- Applied: the statutory declaration problem
- Overall advice
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