Montesi and Montesi (No. 2)

The Full Court of the Family Court of Australia considered an appeal by the husband concerning an application made by the wife in February 2009. The precise nature of the dispute is not detailed in the provided text, but it involved an application by the wife that resulted in an order for the husband to pay a portion of her costs.

The central legal issue before the Full Court was the husband's liability for the wife's costs associated with her application filed on 20 February 2009. The court was required to determine the extent of this liability and the basis upon which those costs should be assessed.

The court ordered that the husband pay half of the wife's costs on a party-party basis. These costs were to be in respect of and incidental to the wife's application filed on 20 February 2009. The assessment of these costs was to be by agreement between the parties, or failing agreement, by taxation.