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Sometimes after a court has made an order splitting up the assets and money of a separating or divorcing couple something happens later to make one of them feel that the arrangement should change.
Normally such changes are not allowed because most of these orders are intended to be final and that is that. However, occasionally they can be changed.
One reason they might be changed, for example, is because it might transpire that one or another of the parties was not entirely truthful in their evidence, such as, for example, on how much money or property they had. Another example would be where something happens, which makes the whole basis of the previous arrangement completely erroneous. For example, if a court were to order that a mother should get a much larger share of the money because she had a child to look after, but then a week later the child were to die, that might be grounds for seeking a change. On the other hand if it were the father that died that might give the woman an argument for going back to court to claim an even bigger share on the grounds that he obviously did not need his share anymore.
Courts are very reluctant to interfere with these arrangements after they have been made. So it will only be in exceptional cases where these alternations will happen. But there is provision for them in the system just in case.