New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT 1899 - SECT 89

89 Writ of capias ad respondendum

(1) A writ of capias ad respondendum may be issued in respect of alimony costs or damages against a respondent or co-respondent in a suit for dissolution of marriage in all cases in which such writ could on the eighth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six be issued in an action at law against a defendant.

(2) The issue of such writ shall be subject to such special directions as the Court in any case thinks fit to give in order to prevent injustice or oppression.