A judge in Victoria has ruled a mother cannot expect financial support to fund her son's $60-week-McDonalds habit.
The woman told the Federal Magistrates' Court that her teenage son had a "Macca's habit" during a spousal maintenance hearing, the Herald Sun reports.
She had sought $1400 per week from her estranged husband for living expenses for her and two of her children, who still live at home.
But federal magistrate Evelyn Bender said the woman had to alter her lifestyle, and made an interim decision that the husband could reasonably afford to pay $800 per week for food, clothing, medical expenses and other expenses.
She described the wife's initial claim as "excessive" and added: "She can no longer expect to live as she may have prior to separation, paying $100 per week in gifts, $150 on jeans for (the youngest child) as well as financing his 'Macca's habit' and providing him with generous amounts of pocket money".
Ms Bender said the wife was challenged in court about some of the amounts claimed by her, including $100 for telephone, $100 for children's activities, and $200 per week for clothes and shoes.
The wife claimed since last March she had used $24,000 in savings on daily living costs.
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