The breakup of a family unit is always challenging, but there are steps you can take to protect your children. Walking up to your kids and telling them that you and your partner are splitting up, can be quite hard; [...]
The Family Law Act is the source of power to make Parenting Orders for responsibility for making decisions for a child, about where they live, who they spend time with, their education, health and other long term care and welfare [...]
From 10 September 2019, personal cross-examination will be banned in family law proceedings in certain circumstances where allegations of family violence have been raised. Personal cross-examination is where a party asks questions of another party or witness directly, rather than [...]
The financial cost of having a Court decide how property is to be divided or how children are to be parented can be disproportionate to the value of property or the issues in dispute. The hours spent preparing for hearings, [...]
When parties to a relationship start their lives together and through hard work, and some luck, they build up their savings and acquire property and superannuation, how are their contributions measured if the decision is made to separate and divide [...]
In the recent case of Graham & Squibb [2019] FamCAFC 33 (2019) FLC 93-892, the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia considered an appeal on the question of whether a Binding Financial Agreement was effective to protect the [...]
When a Court orders that a parent’s time with a child should be supervised it generally means that there are serious allegations in relation to the safety of the child. The place where the parent and child meet or in [...]
Women who rely on male friends to assist them to conceive with no expectation that the donor would become the child’s parent can rely on the Status of Children Act to have control over who is named legal parent of [...]
The Family Court of Australia has finally ended Australia’s most expensive divorce. The case of Strahan & Strahan is exhausting. The parties’ married in 1994 and separated in January 2005. They divorced in 2006. Shortly after separation in 2005, the [...]
In property proceedings, the Court may make such orders as it considers appropriate in relation to the property of the parties of the marriage or relationship, which may alter the interests held. It is, however first necessary to identify and [...]
