CHANTER v CATTS [2005] NSWCA 411

64 NSWLR 360 (2006) DFC 95-329 Reported Decision : [2006] ALMD 4024 34 Fam LR 414 [2006] ALMD 4025

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: CHANTER v CATTS [2005] NSWCA 411

HEARING DATE(S): 22-09-2005

JUDGMENT DATE: 25 November 2005

JUDGMENT OF: Hodgson JA at 1; Bryson JA at 44; Hunt AJA at 122

DECISION: Appeal allowed, orders varied: see [43]

CATCHWORDS: DE FACTO RELATIONSHIPS - adjustment of interests under s.20 of Property (Relationships) Act - by majority, appeal allowed and further adjustments ordered - observations on operation of s.20 where superannuation entitlements are a financial resource - no necessary relationship between contribution to financial resource and incidence of adjustment on property - views of Powell and Cole JJA in Green v Robinson disapproved: see Hodgson JA at [20]-[21] Bryson JA at [82]-[90] David Hunt AJA at [120].

Property (Relationships) Act 1984 (NSW), ss 3(1), 20 LEGISLATION CITED: De Facto Relationships 1984, ss 46, 47(1) & (2), 49 (1)

Green v. Robinson (1995) 36 NSWLR 96 Gazzard v. Winders (1998) 23 FamLR 716 Lyman v. Lyman (1989) 13 FamLR Jones v. Grech [2001] NSWCA 208, 27 FamLR 711 Howlett v. Neilson [2005] NSWCA 149 Gronow v Gronow (1979) 144 CLR 513 Golosky v Golosky NSWCA (Unreported 5 October 1993) Singer v Berghouse (1994) 181 CLR 201 CASES CITED: Evans v Marmont (1997) 42 NSWLR 70 Wallace v Stanford (1995) 37 NSWLR 1 Dwyer v Kaljo (1992) 27 NSWLR 728 Theodoropoulos v Theodosiou (1995) 38 NSWLR 424 Mallet v Mallet (1984) 156 CLR 605 Black v Black (1991) 15 Fam LR 109 Foster v Evans (unreported, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 31 October 1997) Roy v Sturgeon (1986) 11 NSWLR 454 Nguyen v Scheiff (2002) 29 Fam LR 177