Baghti & Baghti [2012] FamCA 711 – 22/08/2012

CATCHWORDS:

FAMILY LAW – CHILDREN – With whom a child should live – with whom a child should spend time with – best interests of the child – husband’s paranoid personality – husband’s use of surveillance of the wife and child – where the child is obese – where the child has suffered from absent seizures and febrile convulsions and cough variant asthma – where there is a high degree of hostility and conflict between the parents and extended families – where the wife was the primary breadwinner and the husband the primary carer of the child – where the husband’s family is enmeshed.

FAMILY LAW – PROPERTY – alteration of property interests – valuation of the wife’s business – valuation of the husband’s company – where the wife’s business had no detailed and consistent business records – wife’s parents as interveners – interveners claiming wife owes them money pursuant to a verbal loan agreement.