Hoogendam v Hoogendam - [1975] 1 NZLR 294

Husband and wife — Domestic proceedings — Orders for maintenance — Weekly sum for wife and children in excess of balance of husband's weekly earnings after providing for himself — Husband having savings in bank — Wife if appropriate should first claim part of savings under Matrimonial Property Act 1963 before obtaining maintenance order — Domestic Proceedings Act 1963, ss 26(c), 27(2) (a) and (c).