A 90-YEAR-OLD Clare man and his wife, in her early eighties, are in the throes of divorce proceedings in the circuit court, a court has heard.
In a bitter family dispute that goes beyond the couple’s marital break-up and involves the couple’s adult children, the man has obtained a protection order against an adult daughter after he told the court she “threatened to smash my face and I am concerned about my safety”.
In a separate action involving the rural family, the mother has obtained a protection order against a son of the couple who farms land around the family home where the estranged parents live and where he provides support to his father.