Wealth and Poverty in Close Personal Relationships: Money Matters

205 Pages·2017·3.119 MB·English

by  Susan Millns, Simone Wong (eds.)

Wealth and Poverty in Close
Personal Relationships
At a time of global and domestic economic crisis, the financial aspects of domestic and
familial relationships are more important and more strained than ever before. The focus of
this book is on the distribution of wealth and poverty in traditional and non-traditional
familial relationships. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the way
in which money matters are structured and governed within close personal relationships
and the extent to which they have an impact on the nature and economic dynamics of
relationships. As such, the key areas of investigation are the extent to which participation
in the labour market, unpaid caregiving, inheritance, pensions and welfare reform have an
impact on familial relationships. The authors explore governmental and legal responses
by investigating the privileging of certain types of domestic relationships, through fiscal and
non-fiscal measures, and the differential provision on relationship breakdown. The impact
of budget and welfare cuts is also examined for their effect on equality in domestic
relationships.
Susan Millns is Professor of Law and Head of the Law School at the University of Sussex.
Her research lies in the area of European Human Rights Law and European Constitutional
Law. She has a particular interest in feminist legal studies and gender equality and has written
extensively on gender and public law issues.
Simone Wongis a Reader in Law at the University of Kent. In addition to being a member
of Lincoln’s Inn in the UK, she has been called to the Bar in Malaysia, Singapore and
Australian Capital Territory. Prior to her joining Kent in 1998, Simone had practised in
Malaysia (1986–1989) and Singapore (1990–1994). She teaches Banking Law as well as
Equity and Trusts. Her research interests are primarily in Equity, Trusts, Cohabitation and
other Domestic Relationships, and Banking.

Wealth and Poverty in Close
Personal Relationships
Money Matters
Edited by
Susan Millns and
Simone Wong
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Contents
Table of cases vii
Table of legislation ix
List of contributors xiii
Introduction 1
SUSAN MILLNS AND SIMONE WONG
1 Credit and debt in close personal relationships 7
JACKIE GOODE
2 Intra-household inequality, poverty and well-being 21
SARA CANTILLON AND MARIE MORAN
3 The ownership and distribution of money in Spanish dual-income
couples: gender differences and the effects of some public policies 39
SANDRA DEMA MORENO AND CAPITOLINA DIAZ MARTINEZ
4 Money practices among older couples: patterns of continuity,
change, conflict and resistance 58
DEBORA PRICE, DINAH BISDEE AND TOM DALY
5 Austerity, solidarity and equality: a European Union perspective
on gender and wealth 74
SUSAN MILLNS
6 Contractual thinking in couple relationships 89
TONE SVERDRUP
7 Marriage and the data on same-sex couples 101
ROBERT LECKEY
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8 Value in personal relationships and the reallocation of property
on divorce 118
CRAIG LIND
9 Intestate succession and the property of unmarried cohabitants
in England and Wales 134
SIMONE WONG
10 The role of child support in tackling child poverty 148
HEATHER KEATING
11 The Universal Credit: a ‘great rationaliser’ for the 21st century 166
ANN MUMFORD
Index 183
Table of cases
Bailey, Re[1977] 1 WLR 278 ....................................................................................18
Baker, Re[2008] 2 FLR 767 ....................................................................................137
Baumbast and R v Secretary of State for the Home Department[2002]
ECR I-7091 .......................................................................................................82
Best v Samuel Fox Co. Ltd. [1952] 2 All ER 394 .......................................................125
Browne (formerly Pritchard) v Pritchard[1975] 1 WLR 1366 ...................................121
Burden v UK [2007] 44 EHRR 51;[2008] 47 EHRR 38 .....................................144–5
Charman v Charman[2006] EWHC (Fam) 1879 ....................................................125
Conran v Conran[1997] 2 FLR 617 ................................................................121, 128
Coventry, Re[1980] Ch 480 .....................................................................................137
Cowan v Cowan[2001] EWCA (Civ) 679 ................................................................125
Crozier v Crozier[1994] Fam 114 (Fam Div) ...........................................................152
Dano v Jobcenter Leipzig, Case C-333/13, 11 November 2014.
EU:C:2014:2358 ...............................................................................................84
Dart v Dart[1996] 2 FLR 286, CA .................................................................121, 128
Defrenne v SABENA(No. 2), Case 43/75 [1976] ECR 455 ......................................79
Delaney v Delaney[1990] 2 FLR 457 (Fam Div) ......................................................149
Dennis, Re[1981] 2 All ER 140 ...............................................................................137
Dereci,Case C-256/11 [2011] ECR I-11315 ............................................................84
Egan v Canada[1995] 2 SCR 513 ...........................................................................107
Ghaidan v Mendoza[2004] 3 All ER 411 .................................................................140
Graham v Murphy[1997] 1 FLR 860 .......................................................................137
Granatino v Radmacher[2010] UKSC 42 [2011] 1 AC 534 ...........................103, 125
Grzelczyk v Centre Public d’Aide Sociale d’Ottignes-Louvain-la-Neuve(CPAS),
Case C-184/99 [2001] ECR I-6193 .................................................................82
Halpern v Canada(Attorney General) [2003] 65 OR (3d) 161 .......................105, 108
Hartshorne v Hartshorne2004 SCC 22 [2004] 1 SCR 550 .......................................103
Hendricks v Québec(Procureur général) [2002] RJQ 2506 .......................................105
Holland v IRC[2003] STC (SCD) 43 .....................................................................144
Johnston v Ireland(App No 9697/82) (18 December 1986) ....................................145
viii Table of cases
Kehoe v UK[2008] 2 FLR 1014 (ECHR) ................................................................151
Kerr v Baranow[2011] SCC 10 [2011] 1 SCR 269 .............................................95, 99
Lawrence v Gallagher[2012] EWCA Civ 394 ...................................................112, 115
Ligue catholique pour les droits de l’homme c Hendricks[2004] RJQ 851 (CA) ...........105
Lindsay v UK[1987] 9 EHRR CD555 .....................................................................145
M v H[1999] 2 SCR 3 .............................................................................................107
McCarthy, Case C-434/09 [2011] ECR I-3375 .........................................................84
McFarlane v Macfarlane[2006] UKHL 24 [2006] 2 AC 618 ..........................111, 121
Martinez Sala v Freistaat Bayern, Case C-85/96 [1998] ECR I-2691 ..............81–2, 84
Miller v Miller, McFarlane v McFarlane[2006] UKHL 24 .............90, 111, 121–2, 132
Minton v Minton[1979] AC 593 ..............................................................................120
Moge v Moge[1992] 3 SCR 813 ...............................................................................112
Negus v Bahouse[2008] EWCA Civ 1002 .................................................................137
O’D v O’D[1976] Fam 83 .......................................................................................121
Page v Page(1981) 2 FLR 198 .................................................................................121
Phillips v Pearce[1996] 2 FLR 230 (Fam Div) ..........................................................154
Piglowska v Piglowska[1999] 1 WLR 1360 ...............................................................137
Preston v Preston[1982] Fam 17 ...............................................................................121
R (Fawcett Society) v Chancellor of the Exchequer[2010] EWHC 3522 .......................86
R (JG and MB) v Lancashire County Council[2011] EWHC 2295 ............................85
R (Rahman) v Birmingham City Council[2011] EWHC 944 ....................................85
R (WM and Others) v Birmingham City Council [2011] EWHC 1147 .......................85
R v Sec of State for Work and Pensions ex parte Kehoe[2006] 1 AC 42 (HL) .............151
Ruiz Zambrano v ONEM, Case C-34/09 [2010] ECR I-1177 ...............................83–4
Serife Yigit v Turkey[2011] 53 EHRR 25 ................................................................145
Shackell v UK(App No 45851/99) (27 April 2000, unreported) ..............................145
Sorrell v Sorrell[2005] EWHC (Fam) 1717 ..............................................................125
South Africa, Kritzinger v Kritzinger[1989] 1 All SA 325 .......................................125
Stack v Dowden[2007] UKHL 17 ..............................................................................99
Wachtel v Wachtel[1973] Fam 72 .............................................................................121
Watson, Re[1999] 1 FLR 878 ..................................................................................137
White v White[2001] 1 AC 596 .....................................................90, 111, 120–2, 132
Zhu and Chen v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Case C-200/02,
[2004] ECR I-9925 ..........................................................................................83
Table of legislation
Austria
Constitution, Art 7 .....................................................................................................80
Canada
Divorce Act ...............................................................................................................106
Council of Europe
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) ....................................................144
Art 8 ..........................................................................................................82, 144–5
Art 14 ...............................................................................................................144–5
Protocol 1, Art 1 ..............................................................................................144–5
European Union
Charter of Fundamental Rights .............................................................................80, 87
Art 20 ....................................................................................................................80
Art 21 ....................................................................................................................80
Art 23 ....................................................................................................................80
Directive 75/117/EEC Equal Pay ..............................................................................78
Directive 76/207/EEC Equal Treatment ...................................................................78
Directive 2002/73/EC, Equal Treatment Amendment Directive ...............................79
Directive 2004/113/EC Access to and Supply of Goods and Services ........................79
Treaty of Lisbon ...................................................................................................75, 80
Treaty on European Union (TEU) .......................................................................75, 81
Art 2 ......................................................................................................................76
Art 7 ......................................................................................................................75
Art 9 ......................................................................................................................81
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) .................................75, 81
Art 18 .................................................................................................................81–2
Art 20 ....................................................................................................................81
Arts 20-24 ..............................................................................................................81
Art 157 ..................................................................................................................78
Finland
Constitution
Art 1 ......................................................................................................................76
Art 6 ......................................................................................................................80