tailieunhanh - RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY Phần 9

Ngoài việc phân bổ tài sản, tiếng Anh pháp luật chỉ đạo Toà án xem xét các nhu cầu của các bên. Đây có thể được đáp ứng bằng cách chuyển nhượng vốn hoặc đơn đặt hàng thu nhập. Giáo sư Ira Ellman, người soạn thảo chủ yếu của các nguyên tắc, có hữu ích tương phản tối tăm của quá trình tiếng Anh tòa án trong McFarlane. | Empowerment and Responsibility 437 this as well of course through recharacterization as marital property over time but only following the duration formula. Apart from allocating assets English law directs courts to consider the needs of the parties. These may be met by capital transfers or income orders. Professor Ira Ellman the principal drafter of the Principles has usefully contrasted the obscurity of the process by which the English courts in McFarlane v. McFarlane and Parlour determined the quantum of the sums necessary to meet future needs and the compensation concept of the 28 However payments for needs are the functional equivalent in English law to the Principles compensation payments. The concept of needs is relative allowing for consideration of the respective postseparation financial situations of the But the starting off point is different. It does not lie in an overt attempt to close the disparities between the partners financial circumstances at separation but in an effort to look forward and assess how the obligee will experience her new standard ofliving in the light ofwhat she had been used to during the marriage. If the result will be too great an imbalance need will be made out and the gap narrowed. Hence both the calculation of needs in English law and of compensatory payments under the Principles can take into account the prospective financial position of the obligee at the time of separation and recipients of both needs-based and compensatory payments will be under a duty to mitigate their losses. Neither consideration is relevant in the allocation of property. And like compensatory payments the duration of needs payments is also likely to be related to the length of the cohabitation and the exercise of child care because it has been held that the appropriateness of limiting the duration of needs payments30 will be defeated where there are young children or in the case of lengthy It would not .