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David Hodson in his international family law opinion piece describes the possible effect of a haunting of the matrimonial home on the divorce financial outcome as set out in a judgment from a federal magistrate's decision in Sydney Australia
Family court judges around the world are given a very difficult task in ascertaining what is a fair division of financial resources and what arrangements are in the best interests of children. But sometimes a case arrives which takes family law justice into another world altogether.
This was the experience of Federal Magistrate Scarlett sitting in Sydney earlier this year when the wife alleged that the matrimonial home was haunted and this should have an impact on the valuation. It is reported as Descas (2013) FMCAfam 69.
It was a case with relatively modest assets and certain unhappy aspects. It is a very comprehensive and careful judgement of 169 paragraphs and testimony to the quality of family court justice at all levels...
Read the full article here.
