Tindell and Tindell

In the matter of Tindell and Tindell, Judicial Registrar Loughnan considered orders relating to parenting and financial matters between the parties. The dispute concerned the resumption of a Child Responsive Program, the assessment of child support, and the disposition of certain assets, including property and vehicles.

The court was required to determine several key issues. These included whether the parties should resume the Child Responsive Program and how the initial phases of that program should be conducted, including the role of a Family Consultant. The court also had to consider the existing assessment of child support and whether it should be varied, particularly in light of non-agency payments made by the husband. Furthermore, the court needed to make orders regarding the sale of specific assets, namely a property and motor vehicles, and to restrain the husband from dealing with certain items of property. Finally, the court addressed the payment of the wife's legal fees and the encumbrance of the former matrimonial home, as well as the return of chattels to the husband.

Judicial Registrar Loughnan ordered that the parties resume the Child Responsive Program, with a Family Consultant to complete initial assessments. Leave was granted to restore parenting proceedings to the list after this initial phase. The existing child support assessment was to remain in place, acknowledging the husband's non-agency payments. The husband was restrained from selling the B property, a motor cruiser, or a BMW motor vehicle without providing the wife with prior written notice of the sale terms. The husband was also restrained from dealing with the BMW currently in the wife's possession. The husband was ordered to pay the wife's legal fees forthwith upon receipt of a tax invoice. Additionally, the husband was restrained from further encumbering the former matrimonial home, except for the purpose of satisfying the order for legal fees. Interim financial proceedings concerning the return of chattels to the husband were stood over, with liberty to restore the matter to the list.