Charonne and Charonne (No. 3)

In *Charonne and Charonne (No. 3)*, Dessau J of the Family Court of Australia considered a matter involving financial and parenting orders. The proceedings concerned a contravention by the husband of previous court orders.

The central legal issue before the Court was the appropriate response to the husband's contravention of the existing orders. This involved determining whether to impose a bond for future compliance and how to address the costs associated with the contravention proceedings, as well as how to account for funds paid by the husband to his solicitors in the context of property settlement.

Dessau J ordered that the husband enter into a bond for 12 months to comply with any future financial and parenting orders made by the Court, pursuant to s 112AF(1) of the *Family Law Act 1975*. The husband was also ordered to pay the wife's costs of the contravention proceedings, fixed at $7,000, to be deducted from his share of the property settlement. Furthermore, a sum of $28,000 paid by the husband to his solicitors was deemed a partial property settlement in his favour. The exhibits tendered were to be returned to the parties.