A WOMAN claimed her family home was haunted in a bid to keep the price tag low enough that she could keep it in a divorce settlement.
The wife, 52, told her husband, lawyers, a property valuer and a court a ghost had been seen at the property.
But she was happy to remain in the house and wanted the chance to keep it, while her estranged husband wanted it sold.
The wife, through her solicitors, wrote to the valuer saying it was "her belief that the property is haunted" and asking how this would impact on the property's value.
The court heard the valuer appeared "rather amused" by the request and replied: "Exorcism is not one of our many speciality services and unless the ghost was held captive in the room to which we could not gain access, it must have been at lunch."
The woman maintained in court there was a ghost in the house and many people in her street knew it.
She said her nephew had seen the ghost some years ago and she "felt something".
The court heard the haunting was confined to one room of the house, the wife's bedroom.
She raised other problems with the property, including a leaking shower, slugs, termites and a freight line near the house that ran day and night.
Federal Magistrate Stephen Scarlett said it was a blatant attempt to persuade the valuer to reduce the price he put on the property.
"I found this account of the alleged haunting to be unbelievable and I am satisfied that the claim was fabricated for an ulterior purpose, namely, as an attempt to influence the valuer to return a low valuation of the former matrimonial home," he said.
The valuer confirmed none of the wife's concerns had any bearing on his $750,000 price tag.
The court judgment, splitting everything the couple owned, allowed the wife to keep the house if she was able to pay the husband $189,000.
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