Carran & Carran

[2022] FedCFamC2F 818

FEDERAL CIRCUIT AND FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA
(DIVISION 2)

Carran & Carran [2022] FedCFamC2F 818

File number:	LNC 804 of 2020
Judgment of:	JUDGE TURNBULL
Date of judgment:	24 June 2022
Catchwords:	FAMILY LAW – PROPERTY – financial agreement – where financial agreement during marriage made purportedly made under s 90B instead of s 90C – whether financial agreement’s terms are uncertain – whether there has been a material change of circumstances – whether financial agreement is void for uncertainty – whether there was unconscionable conduct
Legislation:	Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) ss 4, 90B(1), 90C(1), 90C(2)(a), 90DA(1A), 90G, 90K(1)(b), 90K(1)(d), 90K(1)(e), 90KA
Cases cited:	Beckstead & Beckstead [2021] FedCFamC2F 136 Briginshaw & Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336, Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of NSW (1982) 149 CLR 337 Cohen v Cohen (1929) 42 CLR 91 Commercial Bank of Australia v Amadio (1983) 151 CLR 447 Daily v Daily [2020] FamCAFC 304 DW & GT [2005] FamCA 161 Fewster v Drake [2016] FamCAFC 214 Fitzgerald v Masters (1956) 95 CLR 420 Frederick v Frederick [2019] FamCAFC 87 Graham v Squibb [2019] FamCAFC 33 Guild v Stasiuk [2020] FamCA 348 Hoult v Hoult [2013] FamCAFC 109 Hsiao v Fazarri (2020) 270 CLR 588 Jones v Padavatton (1969) 2 ER 616 Kaimal & Kaimal [2020] FamCA 971 Kostres & Kostres [2009] FamCAFC 222 Meehan v Jones (1982) 149 CLR 571 Metropolitan Gas Company v Federated Gas Employees’ Industrial Union (1925) 35 CLR 449 Muschinski v Dodds (1985) 160 CLR 583 Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust v South Sydney City Council (2002) 240 CLR 45 Ruane v Bachman-Ruane [2009] FamCA 1101 Saintclaire v Saintclaire [2013] FamCA 491 Senior v Anderson [2011] FamCAFC 129 Simic v New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation (2016) 260 CLR 185 Sindel v Georgiou (1984) 154 CLR 661 Stanford & Stanford (2012) 247 CLR 108 Stubbings v Jams 2 Pty Ltd [2022] HCA 6 Sullivan v Sullivan [2011] FamCA 752 Whitford v Whitford [1979] FamCA 3
Division:	Division 2 Family Law
Number of paragraphs:	197
Date of last submission:	20 December 2021
Date of hearing:	20-21 September 2021
Place:	Heard in Launceston, delivered in Sydney
Counsel for the Applicant:	Mr M Trezise
Solicitor for the Applicant:	Ian Guest & Associates
Counsel for the Respondents:	Ms C Gibson
Solicitor for the Respondents:	Charmaine Gibson Barrister & Solicitor

ORDERS

LNC 804 of 2020

FEDERAL CIRCUIT AND FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA (DIVISION 2)

BETWEEN:

MS CARRAN

Applicant

AND:

MR CARRAN

First Respondent

B PTY LTD

Second Respondent

ORDER MADE BY:	JUDGE TURNBULL
DATE OF ORDER:	24 JUNE 2022

THE COURT ORDERS THAT:

1.the agreement made between MS CARRAN (‘the Wife’) and MR CARRAN (‘the Husband’), dated 8 December 2006, is set aside under s 90K(1)(b) and (d) of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) (‘the Act’);

2.the following applications be dismissed:

(a)the Wife’s application at paragraph 3 of the terms of order sought in her application for final orders filed 30 October 2020; and

(b)the Husband…