Christopher Stirling

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Talking Family Law - The Resolution Podcast · Enforcement of financial remedy orders · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

debtor at all.

But that doesn't mean that evidentially it's not a factor which can be put into the question of whether or not the court's satisfied on the burden that they have got the money to pay it.

at the time the court found they had all this money.

So it's useful in that regard.

The other thing to bear in mind is that if you have gone down the route of the D fifty K and you've had an examination of the party on their assets, a cross examination, they've had to fill in a form E1.

You can't rely on any answers that they gave to any question because it's mandatory and therefore it can't be used for the purposes of a quasi-criminal.

But you can rely on the documents they've produced.

So it's it's a wonderful piece of angels and the eye of a needle.

You can rely on the documents because they are said to speak for themselves, but you can't rely upon the answers.

that were given because that was under a mandatory procedure for the purposes of committal.

But it really is last resort.

If nothing else is available, committal it is the route you go down.

Oh, absolutely.

Matrimonial debts are are the veritable undead of debts.

They are the only form of debt that survives a bankruptcy.

But yes, if if somebody's committed and they just said, you know, still not paying, and they've served whatever the sentence is.

I mean, often what the court does, of course, on a committal is impose a suspended sentence i in order to give themselves legal.

Because it's one of those things once you've actually crossed the threshold of the prison and they're inside, then

The threat i i is worse than the actual th th the the reality of them once they've gone in there, that's it.

They've done it and they might do their three months.

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