Stack v. Dowden

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Stack v. Dowden ([2007] UKHL 17) was an important House of Lords case concerning the division of interests in family property after the breakdown of a relationship.^[1]

It stated that as the couple had kept their finances strictly separate during the relationship that this was indicative that the couple did not intend shares in the property to be equal. This allowed the defendant to keep a 65% share against 35% which went to the claimant.