'No interference with immersion switch' among undertakings between separated couple

Judge Gabbett said that he was thinking of the couple’s 'poor children' and said: 'This is not a normal household.'

The Family Law Court heard that the couple’s relationship has ended but neither has sufficient money to move out of the family home. File picture

An agreement not to interfere with the immersion switch in the family home is one of a number of undertakings between a couple, a court has heard.

After being told of the undertaking involving the house immersion switch at the Family Law Court, Judge Alec Gabbett remarked: “It is very 1950s, isn’t it?”.