Baker v Towle

• 1. De Facto Relationships
  2. › Adjustment of interests in property
  3. › Property (Relationships) Act 1984 (NSW), s 20
  4. › Three-step approach
  5. › Identification and valuation of property
  6. › Whether necessary to assess existing interests in all cases
  7. › Treatment of initial contributions
  8. › Whether assets owned prior to relationship constitute 'contributions'
  9. › Erosion principle
  10. › Whether increase in value of pre-relationship assets attributable to joint efforts
• 1. De Facto Relationships
  2. › Adjustment of interests in property
  3. › Property (Relationships) Act 1984 (NSW), s 20
  4. › Contributions to welfare
  5. › Whether monetary valuation of non-financial contributions required
  6. › Homemaker and parent contributions
• 1. Costs
  2. › Costs follow the event
  3. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.1
  4. › Meaning of 'the event'
  5. › Whether 'the event' may be identified by reference to degree of success
  6. › Proportionate costs orders
  7. › Where neither party wholly or substantially successful
  8. › Property (Relationships) Act 1984 proceedings
• 1. Costs
  2. › Property (Relationships) Act 1984 proceedings
  3. › Starting point for costs
  4. › Whether 'no order as to costs' is default position
  5. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), rr 42.1, 42.30
  6. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 98

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