{"id":46324,"date":"2025-01-24T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T01:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldman-lawyers.com\/?p=46324"},"modified":"2025-01-24T02:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:01:00","slug":"adjustment-in-favour-of-wife-in-property-proceedings-notwithstanding-the-husbands-significant-financial-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldman-lawyers.com\/envirounment\/adjustment-in-favour-of-wife-in-property-proceedings-notwithstanding-the-husbands-significant-financial-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjustment in Favour of Wife in Property Proceedings Notwithstanding the Husband&#8217;s Significant Financial Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"46324\" class=\"elementor elementor-46324\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-62d649e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"62d649e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1eda5c9\" data-id=\"1eda5c9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-479b3ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"479b3ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.9.0 - 06-12-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Words<\/strong>:\u00a0 property proceedings; contributions; section 75(2) of the Family Law Act;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>In the recent Family Court of Western Australia case of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austlii.edu.au\/au\/cases\/wa\/FCWA\/2016\/2.html\"><em>Telfer\u00a0<\/em><\/a>[2016] FCWA 2 (4 January 2016), Walters J had to consider a seven-year marriage where there was two children (aged 6 and 8) and $4.25 million in assets. The wife had made an initial contribution of $168,000 and the husband\u2019s contribution was $960,000. Post-separation contributions were also included.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The husband was a registered builder at the time the parties separated and the wife was a part-time teacher. The husband\u2019s income had been assessed at $585,358, with the wife\u2019s income being $32,926.The value of what the parties contributed financially at the start of the relationship was not in dispute. According to the Court: \u201cClearly, the husband\u2019s financial contributions at the commencement of cohabitation and during the course of the relationship far outweighed those of the wife. That is not to say, of course, that the wife did not make direct and indirect financial contributions to the acquisition, conservation and improvement of the parties\u2019 property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>In considering the parties\u2019 contributions with a view to determining a just and equitable distribution of the parties\u2019 property, the Court was of the view that: \u201c[T]he parties\u2019 relationship was not too short to enable the \u2018myriad of other contributions made by the wife to offset, dilute or erode the significance of the initial financial contributions made by the husband. In my opinion, however, the husband\u2019s initial financial contributions remain an important consideration, to which appropriate weight must be given.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The Court ultimately arrived at a settlement which favoured the husband due to his significant financial contribution going into, and during the relationship: \u201cIn all the circumstances (including the seven-year period of cohabitation and the period between separation and the date of trial), I conclude that between 60% and 65% of the overall property pool should be awarded to the husband on the basis of his contributions from the commencement of cohabitation to the date of trial, and the balance to the wife on the same basis. As it would be intellectually dishonest of me to choose either the higher or lower figure within the range I have specified, I shall fix the midpoint \u2013 being 62.5% \u2013 as being appropriate.\u201d<br \/>As to factors in section 75(2) of the <em>Family Law Act<\/em> that the Court can draw upon to adjust the level of contributions the parties made, the Court considered that the husband and the wife were 50 and 47, that the husband\u2019s earning capacity was \u201cvery substantial\u201d, that the children were living with the wife and that the wife was working as a teacher. 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