FLORAL arrangement, overseeing pool cleaners and exercising the household dogs have earned one man a slice of his gay ex-lover's multi-million-dollar estate.
The couple's three-year legal battle landed the former partner of a property entrepreneur a 12 per cent share of an almost $7 million nest egg, including a harbourside home they once shared.
In a Family Court judgment, which runs to 115 pages, the lover was rewarded for tasks such as laying out his former partner's gym gear every morning and buying and preparing his vitamins.
Family Court Justice Peter Young said the lover identified other "principal homemaker activities" such as shopping, making meals, co-ordinating paid cleaners, pool and maintenance staff and feeding, grooming and exercising dogs.
He also took responsibility for weekly flower arrangements in their properties and "paid attention to the finer details and presentation therein".
"I do find that the (businessman) was a perfectionist, as he properly acknowledged, and thus the pressure and responsibility on (the lover) within this particular unique relationship was substantial," Justice Young said.
"I find (the businessman) did not materially contribute to the homemaker duties. Thus I find (the lover) did supervise, manage and otherwise undertook and carried out almost all of the household domestic duties and that they were performed at a level that satisfied the very exacting standards of (the businessman)."
He awarded the lion's share of assets to the businessman after the breakdown of the five-year relationship.
According to the judgment, the lover lied about having his own property portfolio when he met the businessman, who had already amassed $2 million in property assets.
Justice Young found the lover falsely claimed to have almost $200,000 invested with the Bank of Cyprus.
However, the businessman's legal team found no trace of the money in the trial lead-up.
As part of the lover's claim, he sought $1700 in compensation for six mini magnolia trees planted at the property they shared.
He also sought payment for $1200 worth of fresh flowers and $28,000 he claimed he withdrew from his Cyprus account to pay for painting, electrical work, blinds, carpets, antennae and plumbing.
But Justice Young said the lover "finally acknowledged" at the trial that the invoices were fraudulent after it was revealed he loaned the $1700 to another person and splurged on "high-end men's clothing and goods".
"I am satisfied ... (the lover) made no such contribution and that the disclosure of the ... invoice was a deliberate and intentional fraud ... to better secure his contribution to the relationship and more particularly to defraud (the businessman)," Justice Young said.
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