McDonnell v McDonnell On the wife’s application for ancillary relief, following her divorce, the judge ordered the husband to pay., 
the wife a lump sum of £2,000 and periodical payments, and also ordered the husband to transfer to the
wife his interest in the matrimonial home (originally acquired by the husband but subsequently
transferred into the parties’ joint names), subject to a fixed charge in the husband’s favour of £10,000,
which represented one-third of the value of the house.