20 Sept 2019
The application to restore the 2012 judgment summons was dismissed because the applicant had participated in and received payments under a comprehensive 2017 settlement that resulted in her receiving sums exceeding the computed arrears; equitable estoppel and the public interest in finality bar reopening the claim, and costs were awarded to respondent.
1 Aug 2002
Custody, care and control were awarded to the mother because the paramount welfare of the children favored her: established close emotional bond, children's clear and unanimous wishes, the status quo of shared living was harmful, joint custody was impracticable given conflict and lack of communication; respondent ordered to vacate the home and to pay specified child maintenance; matrimonial assets divided 50/50 in principle with respondent's share secured by a charge over the wife's property payable when the children are independent; costs largely borne by respondent.
15 Aug 1969
The appellate court held the Deputy Registrar applied the correct principles, considered the wife's fortune, husband's means and conduct, and exercised a permissible discretion in fixing a lump sum of $250,000 and annual maintenance of $60,000; the award was within the generous ambit of reasonable disagreement and not plainly wrong, therefore both the appeal and cross‑appeal were dismissed.