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It wasn't about the money, it was about winning, revenge, getting the last word and a total disregard for proportionality of costs to the value of the dispute and the effect on the children. If there were 65 hearings, one presumes with 65 costs estimates, the court was well aware of the magnitude of the costs throughout. The problem is the whole litigation process has a fantastical logic of its own, a parallel universe of rules and processes that have no way of dealing with such feelings, beliefs and chemistry. The DR system cannot cope with such a situation it isn't designed for it.