Chichester v Chichester     Husband and wife – Divorce – Petitions for variation of settlement and maintenance –
Proportion between amount secured and amount ordered to be paid – Deductions allowable in
assessing maintenance – Covenant for benefit of children of former marriage – Supreme
Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, (c 49), s 190(1), (2).
The Registrar, in his report on a petition for maintenance by a wife, submitted that the
respondent should pay maintenance during the joint lives of the petitioner and the respondent
at the rate of £272 a year, of which £200 a year should be secured. In arriving at this figure
the Registrar took into account, inter alia, a deed of covenant for the benefit of the
respondent’s children by a former marriage. The respondent contended that not more than
one third or a half of the amount awarded as maintenance should be secured.