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Key decisions

  • Costello & Langdon [2024] FedCFamC1A 168
  • Handa & Mallick [2024] FedCFamC2F 957
  • Giordano v Giordano [2024] FCWA 182
  • Kuang & Kuang [2024] FedCFamC2F 1191

PROPERTY

Stanford distinguished – husband lived in aged care but parties had separated – Court did not err by considering s 90SM(4) when determining it was just and equitable to divide the parties’ property

In Costello & Langdon [2024] FedCFamC1A 168 (24 September 2024), the Full Court (Aldridge, Austin & Tree JJ) heard a de facto wife’s appeal from property orders following a 41 year relationship which ended when the de facto husband entered aged care in 2021.

The trial judge ordered a 64:36 adjustment in favour of the de facto wife.

The Full Court said (from [21]):

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