The dirty laundry of a wealthy Sydney family has been aired in court during a battle over the colourful 90-year-old matriarch’s multimillion-dollar fortune…

Former spouse, who engaged in a relentless campaign of false allegations of physical and sexual abuse after the divorce, makes claim on late ex-husband’s substantial estate 25 years after separation. Did she get anything?..

In family law disputes it is a common misconception that an inheritance or other large sum received after separation will be excluded from the property pool to be divided between the parties. ..

This is the case of notorious solicitor Michael Ryan, who had numerous lovers, many of them prostitutes, who have all made claims on his $8m estate as his de facto lovers, with varying degrees of success. ..

What’s interesting is in many of the multi-million dollar divorce cases which have made it to court, the wife has received less than half of the assets…

THE ex-wives of two brothers at the helm of a Queensland farming and mining company have snared the lion’s share of the family fortune after a legal showdown with one of their own children for the money…