New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT 1899 - SECT 25

25 Relief given to Respondent

(1) In suits for dissolution of marriage under sections twelve fourteen or fifteen if a wife being a respondent opposes on the ground of the petitioner’s adultery cruelty or desertion a petition presented by her husband or if a husband being a respondent opposes on the ground of the petitioner’s adultery or cruelty a petition presented by his wife the Court may on the application of such respondent give the same relief to which such respondent would have been entitled in case he or she had filed a petition seeking such relief.

(2) So far as they severally are applicable all the provisions of this section shall apply to petitions and suits under sections thirteen and sixteen.