3 Oct 2007
H v. H
- Citation
- H v. H
- Court
- Family Court
- Case number
- FCMC1969/2007
Applying s.3 and established authorities the court must adopt a broad brush assessment of the wife's reasonable needs against the husband's clear ability to pay. On the evidence of historic joint account and card spending, and having given the wife the benefit of doubt on disputed items to avoid immediate hardship to the children (notably the seriously ill son), the court found the husband's resources sufficient and the wife's deployable assets insufficient to meet ongoing legal costs; therefore ordered interim maintenance of $75,000 per month commencing 1 April 2007 and a contribution of $50…