SIENA & ZAPPA

In the matter of SIENA & ZAPPA, Hartnett J made orders concerning the division of property and maintenance between the parties. The dispute concerned the financial and property settlement following the breakdown of the marriage.

The court was required to determine the appropriate division of the parties' assets, including real property, vehicles, and superannuation entitlements, and to make orders regarding maintenance. The court also had to address the removal of caveats registered by the wife over certain properties.

Hartnett J ordered the husband to pay the wife a sum of $1,665,329.70, of which $45,000 was to be attributed to maintenance pursuant to section 77A of the *Family Law Act 1975*. The wife was ordered to remove any caveats she had registered over properties that the husband would retain sole ownership of. The wife was to retain sole ownership of her vehicle and superannuation, while the husband was to retain sole ownership of his interests in several specified real properties, his vehicle, and his superannuation. The orders also stipulated that each party would be solely entitled to all other property owned by them, with specific provisions for furniture and chattels at a particular property, insurance policies, and liability for encumbrances. Joint tenancies were severed. The husband was also ordered to arrange for the transportation of the wife's childhood books from the former matrimonial home at his expense. All other extant applications were dismissed.