Read the full judgment text of FCMC 8680/2012 on BabelCite. This Family Court judgment was delivered on 27 October 2017 before Her Honour Judge Sharon D. Melloy.
Costs – Children’s trials – Matrimonial causes – Conduct of litigation – No order as to costs – Costs of summons – District Court – General rule no order as to costs in child matters unless unreasonable conduct – Whether mother’s involvement of children in litigation warranted costs order – Father’s challenge to costs order – No order as to costs for custody applications – Father pays wife’s costs of costs application summons
Legal issues: Costs order in children's trials · Costs of the summons
Outcome: No order as to costs for custody applications; Father pays Wife's costs of costs application summons
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