Australia, July 9 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement:
1 HIS HONOUR: Many families function and live out their lives delighting and disappointing each other without resort to legal processes. Sometimes legal processes may be necessary to determine disputed relational matters and property entitlements within families.
2. Not all such litigation is unwelcome or vexed. Uncontested adoption applications are a quintessential example of a legal proceeding which in many respects gladdens hearts and generally enriches the adoptive family. However, many family grievances or disputes worked out in the context of litigation have the opposite tendency, especially where conducted by a family member by m...