Faraday and Anor & Gear and Anor [2012] FamCA 513 – 05/07/2012

CATCHWORDS:

FAMILY LAW - COSTS - Circumstances justifying order – where the respondents’ financial position is much superior to that of the applicants – where the respondents were wholly unsuccessful in the portion of proceedings in which costs are being sought – where the applicants had made an offer to settle – orders for the respondents to pay the applicants’ costs as agreed or assessed, from the date that the offer to settle was made