Teel and Teel

In the matter of *Teel and Teel*, heard before Watts J, the husband sought to join his mother-in-law as a party to the proceeding. The specific nature of the underlying dispute between the parties is not detailed in the provided text, but the application concerned the joinder of a third party.

The central legal issue before the court was whether the husband's application to join his mother-in-law to the proceeding should be granted. This required the court to consider the appropriate criteria for joining parties to family law proceedings and the potential impact of such joinder on the conduct and resolution of the case.

Watts J dismissed the husband's application to join his mother-in-law to the proceeding. The court ordered that the husband pay costs to the maternal grandmother in the sum of $1,320. By consent of the parties, this sum is to be paid from a controlled monies account held with Shipton & Associates, and this payment will be treated as an amount received by the husband from that fund.