Coluzzi v Coluzzi [2001] NSWSC 94

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Coluzzi v Coluzzi [2001] NSWSC 94 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4279/2000 HEARING DATE(S) : 16/02/2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 1 March 2001

Tatjana Natasha Coluzzi (P) PARTIES : Luigi Romano Coluzzi (D1) Max Droga (D2) JUDGMENT OF : Young J

J M Atkin (P) COUNSEL : I McLachlan (D1) J Conomos and A S Kostopoulos (D2) Mark Phillip Symonds (P) SOLICITORS : Galloways (D1) Carroll & Associates (D2) CATCHWORDS : EQUITY [96]- Trust- Resulting trust- Joint purchase of land- Husband and wife- Evidence sketchy- Likelihood that equal equitable ownership intended. FAMILY LAW [5]- Matrimonial cause- Claim that wife unequal owner in equity not such a cause. WORDS & PHRASES- "Matrimonial cause"- "Property". LEGISLATION CITED : Family Law Act (Comm) 1975, ss 4(ca) of definition of "matrimonial cause" and definition of "property", 39, 40, 78, 79. Austin v Keele (1987) 10 NSWLR 283 Banks v Permanent Custodians Ltd [2001] NSWSC 61 Calverley v Green (1984) 155 CLR 242 Jennings v Jennings (1977) 22 Fam LR 510 Kuckucka v Kuckucka [1980] 2 NSWLR 655 Landerer v Abeles (Moore J, 8 December 2000) McNeill v McNeill's Transport Pty Ltd (1985) 81 FLR 26 Mullane v Mullane (1983) 158 CLR 436 Official Trustee in Bankruptcy v Ritchie (1988) 12 NSWLR 162 CASES CITED : Pollnow v Armstrong [2000] NSWCA 245 R v Dovey; Ex parte Ross (1979) 141 CLR 526 Re Aldred (1984) 9 Fam LR 539 Re Duff (1977) 29 FLR 46 Re Farr (1976) 2 Fam LR 11,300 Re Garmonsway [1986] FLC 91-746 Re Komaromi (1976) 27 FLR 513 Re Mills (1976) 25 FLR 433 Re Savage and Hodgson (1982) 46 ALR 198 Re W (1982) 8 Fam LR 323 DECISION : Proceedings dismissed.