Z v Z (Approved)

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This is a successful appeal against certain of the ancillary financial provision that was made by the Circuit Court when granting a divorce to the parties hereto.

The parties in this case were married in the first decade of this century. They were divorced by order of the Circuit Court in February of this year. There are two children of the marriage, both of National School age. The marriage seems to have floundered in large part because Mr Z, regrettably, took to drink and drugs. Ms Z said in her evidence that the experiences that her family went through as a result of her husband�s dependencies were � horrendous �.

This is an appeal by Ms Z against the financial (proper) provision that was made by the Circuit Court as part of the divorce. Ms Z contends that the financial provision made for her by the Circuit Court is not proper provision. She also believes that she and the courts have, to use a colloquialism that she employed, � been given the complete run-around � by Mr Z. She pointed to a number of matters in this regard:

•�� Mr Z claims that he is unable to work, yet through the accident of mail being sent to the family home, it was discovered by Ms Z just in advance of the second day on which this appeal came on for hearing that he was intending to take up work.