HC Deb 20 November 1957 vol 578 c398

Bill to enable the power of the court in matrimonial proceedings to order alimony, maintenance or the securing of a sum of money to be exercised at any time after a decree; to provide for the setting aside of dispositions of property made for the purpose of reducing the assets available for satisfying such an order to enable the court after the death of a party to a marriage which has been dissolved or annulled to make provision out of his estate in favour of the other party: and to extend the powers of the court under Section seventeen of the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, presented by Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth; supported by Sir Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, Mr. Elwyn Jones, Mrs. Hill, Mr. Moyle, Dame Irene Ward, Sir Eric Errington, and Mr. Petre Crowder; read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Friday, 7th March and to be printed. [Bill 33.]