Skipper and Skipper (No. 3)

In *Skipper and Skipper (No. 3)*, Gill J of the Family Court of Australia considered applications by both the husband and wife. The dispute concerned spousal maintenance and a partial property distribution.

The court was required to determine the appropriate quantum of spousal maintenance payable by the husband to the wife, and to make orders regarding the distribution of a specific sum of money from a joint bank account as a partial property settlement.

Gill J ordered that pending further order, the husband pay spousal maintenance to the wife in the amount of $1,659 per week, with payments to be made directly into the wife's nominated bank account. Additionally, the court ordered that by 18 May 2018, the husband and wife were to arrange for the deduction of $84,223 from a specified joint bank account, to be paid into an account directed by the wife, and characterised as a partial property distribution. The husband's application filed on 3 May 2018 and the wife's application filed on 20 April 2018 were otherwise dismissed.