Ashforth & Ashforth (No 4)

In *Ashforth & Ashforth (No 4)*, Ainslie-Wallace J considered an application by the wife seeking to discharge orders made by a Judicial Registrar and to obtain further orders regarding property and maintenance. The dispute concerned the husband's alleged arrears of maintenance and the division of marital assets, specifically funds held in a G Holdings account and properties located in the United Kingdom.

The court was required to determine the extent of the husband's liability for maintenance arrears and to make orders concerning the division of the G Holdings account and the disposition of certain UK properties. Additionally, the court needed to consider whether to impose interlocutory restraints on the husband's ability to deal with these assets pending further resolution of the property matters.

Ainslie-Wallace J discharged the previous orders of the Judicial Registrar. The court ordered the husband to pay $4,800.00 to the wife for maintenance arrears and $40,000.00 from the G Holdings account within 28 days. The husband was to bear the initial costs of any division of the G Holdings fund, with these costs to be factored into the final property settlement. Pending further orders, the husband was restrained from assigning, encumbering, or diminishing the G Holdings account funds, and from selling, assigning, alienating, or further encumbering three specific UK properties. The husband was also required to provide 14 days' notice to the wife before taking any steps concerning these properties and to pay mortgage instalments if he occupied the P property in the UK.