Ex-wife given permission to challenge terms of order agreeing sale of family home to repay mortgage


The UK Supreme Court has granted a divorced woman permission to challenge the terms of her undertaking, given in a 2010 consent order, that she would release her ex-husband from paying the mortgage on the matrimonial home within two years, if necessary by selling it. Mrs Birch seeks to postpone her obligation to secure the husband's release from the mortgage, being reluctant to move home because her children go to schools nearby.

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