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Depending on who you ask, that's either due to the husband's attempts at financial funny business to keep his ex from getting her share, or the wife's position as a "vexatious litigant" in the divorce, churning through seemingly endless legal maneuvers in a way to get as much out of it as possible. In an earlier decision, Justice Paul Cronin said of those maneuvers:

"Years had passed without any clear indication of what she was seeking, notwithstanding the parade of lawyers passing. Most of those lawyers were involved in interlocutory disputes about discovery and litigation funding."

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The woman also reportedly had a habit of blowing off court hearings and missing deadlines for filing documents, at one point asking for more time to investigate her husband's alleged transfer of $142 million AUD to offshore accounts.

The final ruling by Australia's Family Court was a rejection of the wife's request to have the case reopened and prolonged yet again, in an effort to regain control of several "family trusts and companies." But when her control over those interests were relinquished in court last year, her husband in turn was ordered to hand over $2 million AUD in cash plus company shares valued at $1 million AUD, as well as various real estate properties and other holdings valued at almost $8 million AUD.