Moller and Moller (No 2)

In *Moller and Moller (No 2)*, Foster J of the Family Court of Australia considered applications for costs made by both the husband and the wife. The specific nature of the underlying dispute between the parties is not detailed in the provided text, but the applications for costs indicate a contested proceeding.

The central legal issue before the court was whether either party should be awarded their costs of the proceedings. This required the court to consider the general principles governing costs in family law matters, including the discretion of the court to award costs and the factors that inform that discretion.

Foster J dismissed both the wife's and the husband's applications for costs. This outcome suggests that, in the exercise of the court's discretion, neither party was considered to have conducted the proceedings in a manner that warranted an order for costs in their favour, nor was there a basis to depart from the usual position of parties bearing their own costs in the absence of specific circumstances justifying an order otherwise.