Changing The Child’s Primary Carer
Stability and routine are important in a child’s life, especially a young child, but sometimes the court decides that a big change is necessary, such as changin...
13 January, 2019
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What Is A Short Marriage Property Settlement?
Although a property settlement is a common occurrence, property settlement outcomes are never the same. A short marriage property settlement can be quite differ...
18 November, 2018
Investigating A Nationwide Child Abduction Ring
Seven people have so far been charged for their involvement in a parental child abduction ring. Earlier this week, three women from Taree, Newcastle and Townsvi...
08 November, 2018
Pet Custody: How Does It Work?
Who gets the fridge and who keeps the dishwasher might be easy enough to figure out, but what about pet custody? This is a tough issue for many couples as they ...
03 November, 2018
Should Divorce Be Illegal?
Where Is Divorce Illegal? Should divorce be illegal? There are two countries in the world where it is illegal to get a divorce. In the Philippines and the Vati...
11 October, 2018
Fortnite Behind 5% Of Divorces
What causes divorce? Well, according to one study, the reason behind 5 per cent of divorces is the popular game Fortnite. The study by UK website Divorce Online...
23 September, 2018
What Are De Facto Rights?
Worrying about de facto rights can leave unmarried couples feeling far less certain than their married counterparts about how things will play out in the event ...
14 September, 2018
Inheritance and Divorce
In a divorce, the division of marital assets can become a highly contentious issue, especially if you and your former spouse are disputing the importance of you...
23 August, 2018
Gifts and Divorce
Dividing marital assets at the end of a relationship can be quite straightforward, but how do the courts look at gifts and divorce? It is not unusual for parent...
16 August, 2018
Victims Of Revenge Porn During Divorce
Something no one wants to think about is what would happen if they became a victim of revenge porn during divorce. Unfortunately, family law proceedings are not...
10 August, 2018
Divorce and Business
Divorce can be hard enough without it involving your business and livelihood. For many Australian couples, divorce and business mix, and this leads to big quest...
02 August, 2018
Name Change After Divorce
Getting a name change after divorce reverses the tradition of a married couple having the same name. For many people, this is a significant part of the separati...
27 July, 2018
Gay Divorce In Australia
Marriage equality in Australia was a huge cause for celebration but there is another big change that comes with it: gay divorce. Sometimes marriages end, and th...
11 July, 2018
How To Have An Amicable Divorce
An amicable divorce might seem like an oxymoron, but it does not have to be an unattainable myth. Divorce can be thought of as inevitably full of animosity, but...
10 July, 2018
What To Do: Divorced Parent Enrolling A Child At School
As a divorced parent enrolling a child at school, there are several things to be aware of that you would not have had to think about while married or in a relat...
21 June, 2018
What Does The Independent Children’s Lawyer Do?
In parenting matters in family law, the court will often appoint an independent children’s lawyer to represent the best interests of the children. Each parent k...
17 June, 2018
8 Tips For Choosing The Best Family Lawyer
How Do You Find The Best Family Lawyer? Choosing the best family lawyer during your divorce is very important, helping you reach the best outcome, understand th...
14 June, 2018
How Does The Court Use A Family Report?
Many court cases feature a family report. This is a document written by a professional for the purposes of helping the judge determine the best outcome of the f...
07 June, 2018
What Is Parental Alienation?
Parental alienation is the term used to describe when one parent deliberately damages the relationship between the other parent and their child. High-conflict s...
05 June, 2018
Drug Testing In The Family Court
In parenting disputes in family law, the court has the power to make orders for drug testing. It is not specifically mentioned anywhere in the Family Law Act 19...
31 May, 2018
Family Court Merging To Reduce Delays
The Attorney-General today announced major changes in relation to the Family Court merging to reduce delays. The Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court will...
30 May, 2018
International Relocation
What Is International Relocation? Many people move to different countries at different stages of their lives, so it is no surprise that after the breakdown of a...
25 May, 2018
Domestic Violence: Mother Loses Custody
The Federal Circuit Court heard a case involving allegations of domestic violence, heavy marital conflict, emotional abuse and substance abuse last month in Bri...
17 May, 2018
Hague Convention And Child Abduction
What Is The Hague Convention? The Hague Convention creates an agreement between multiple countries to provide a process that parents can use to seek the return ...
04 May, 2018
Who Gets The $637 Million Superyacht?
The seizure of a $637 million superyacht is part of an absurdly expensive divorce in London. The yacht MV Luna is set to change hands from husband to wife in th...
01 May, 2018
Child Custody and Religion
Who Decides A Child’s Religion? Australia is an incredibly multicultural society made up of people from all over the globe and in such a diverse country i...
08 April, 2018
Father Loses Appeal – Contact Limited To 2 Letters A Year
A father has lost an appeal to the family court that will now limit his contact with his children to writing to them twice a year. He was successful in appealin...
31 March, 2018
The Right To Stay In the Family Home After Separation
When Your Ex Won’t Move Out It is easy to think of separation as exactly that: a breakdown of the relationship and therefore a physical separation as one or bot...
24 March, 2018
6 Child Custody Agreements That May Work For You
Life moves differently from the way it did even one decade ago. Australian couples marry later, have fewer children, are more likely to separate or divorce, rem...
17 March, 2018
Separated Under One Roof
The family home is an evocative image, a symbol of the belonging and togetherness a family represents. It is made of memories, voices, footsteps, food, each roo...
01 March, 2018
The Politician, the Wife and the Partner
A man has an affair with a woman he met at work. He was married to his estranged wife for twenty-four years and has four daughters with her. His girlfriend is n...
22 February, 2018
Family Lawyers Blasted By Judge For Charging $860k In Fees
A Tasmanian Family Court judge has released a damning judgment reprimanding two lawyers from opposing law firms for charging outrageous fees in family law proce...
11 February, 2018
Financial Divorce Advice
Divorce normally means that you will be making a number of life-changing decisions. After a divorce, both spouses will most likely find themselves with less mon...
04 February, 2018
When is the right time to have a successful divorce?
Making the decision to get a divorce is not an easy one. Many people think that once the parties have decided to separate, the next logical step is to follow up...
28 January, 2018
Court Refuses To Split Property After Breakdown Of 5 Year Marriage
A court declared that a husband and wife were to walk away with their own property after the breakdown of a 5-year marriage. This left the husband with $80,000 ...
20 January, 2018
Mum Ordered To Pay Back $4,142.73 In Child Support
A Mother has been ordered to pay back $4,142.73 in child support as it was discovered that she had knowingly lied about the child’s parentage to the child...
18 January, 2018
The First Gay Divorce In Australia
9 December 2017 was a historic day for Australian Family Law: same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia through the passing of the Marriage Amendment (Defini...
14 January, 2018
The Age You Get Married Is Important To Avoid Divorce
If you have been wondering what age is the best to get married to avoid divorce, you’re in luck. A recent report claims the ideal age to head down the ais...
07 January, 2018
Father Loses Appeal To Keep Child Within A 40min Drive Of His Home
A father has lost his appeal to stop his child from moving outside of a 40-minute driving radius of his own home. Groth v Banks [2017] FamCAFC 206 concerned an ...
03 January, 2018
Ex-wife tells Family Court she needs $4,000 a week for expenses
Throughout the marriage of Mr and Ms Moller, the couple enjoyed a very high standard of living. Mr Moller’s income was said to of averaged about $1.5million per...
20 December, 2017
Australian Couple Spends 12 Years In Divorce Court
Every year, 97 000 Australians ask their partner for a divorce. This means 1 in 3 married couples are not likely to go the distance. The process of divorce can ...
10 December, 2017
Post Separation Inheritance To Be Shared By Divorced Couple
Mr Calvin and Ms McTier were in a relationship that lasted approximately eight years. In January 2014, about 4 years after separation, the husband received an i...
07 December, 2017
Family Court Decision – One Mother’s Severe Lesson In Co-Parenting
Mr and Mrs Ralton (Court-ordained pseudonyms) were in a relatively short relationship from 2005 to 2009. During the relationship, the couple had two children- a...
03 December, 2017
High Court Tears Up Prenuptial Agreement
The couple, Mr Kennedy and Ms Thorne, met online in 2006 on a website for potential brides. At the time, Mr Kennedy was a 67 year-old Greek-Australian property ...
28 November, 2017
Disclosure For Financial Orders
After separation, a former couple usually needs to sort out the division of their assets and debts. They can choose to do so privately with no court involvement...
17 November, 2017
People In This Career Have The Lowest Divorce Rate
If you don’t want to get divorced, then enrol yourself in actuary studies. Actuaries, whose job is to predict and manage risk and uncertainty, fittingly have th...
09 November, 2017
26 Months In Court For A 19 Month Marriage
One Melbourne couple together spent over $225,000 over a 26-month period in Court disputing settlement of property from their 19-month long marriage. This recen...
01 November, 2017
Accused of Domestic Violence in a Family Law Court Case
We hear of cases where one person threatens the other person that they will accuse them of being violent and report them to police. We also hear of cases where ...
25 October, 2017
What If Your Ex Doesn’t Want Your Children Vaccinated?
Figuring out how to co-parent with your previous partner can sometimes feel like hitting a nail in with a glass hammer. It’s a full-time job, even when bo...
18 October, 2017
FACS Has Taken My Baby!
NSW has the highest rate of child removals in Australia. It also has the highest number of children in foster care. In 2017, 22,400 children are forecasted to b...
11 October, 2017
School Holiday Survival Guide For Separated Parents
A Family Law Guide to School Holidays & Separated Parents Most parents agree that children will spend time with both parents during school holidays and spec...
28 September, 2017
16% of Married Couples Are Having “Financial Affairs”
Do you keep financial secrets from your significant other? A survey by the credit tracking company Experian states that 1 in 6 newlywed couples keep financial s...
24 September, 2017
Does Facebook Prevent Or Assist Cheating?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently made an interesting statement. Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook actually helped expose cheaters. He said that women al...
17 September, 2017
Australian Couple Separating Overseas
With the world becoming more interconnected and globalised, it is not uncommon for a family to relocate and live overseas. This can be because of factors such a...
13 September, 2017
What Happens When You Break Family Court Orders?
The Courts have to ensure that their decisions are enforced and are never happy when their orders are contravened. Contravening, or ‘breaching’ a Family Law Cou...
08 September, 2017
Transferring Property To Reduce The Asset Pool
After separation, a party may attempt to reduce the asset pool before they are going to divide the matrimonial property. They may do this by transferring it out...
03 September, 2017
Am I In A De Facto Relationship?
You may have wondered at some point, what is the definition of a de facto relationship? A de facto relationship is the legal term for a serious ‘boyfriend...
29 August, 2017
$160 Million Dollars cost of Plebiscite whilst Family Law System is in crisis
Rosie Batty, 2015 Australian of the year, has renewed her push for a Royal Commission into Australia’s family law system. Rosie has campaigned against domestic ...
20 August, 2017
“The Family Law System Discriminates Against Fathers”
These are the words of Mick Clarke, whose son was killed by his own mother. Mick Clarke’s seven-year-old son, Jacob Clarke, was murdered by his mother Tanyia He...
17 August, 2017
Family Court Denies Jewish Man’s Request For Religious Divorce
Family Court of Australia refuses Jewish divorce plea application saying that granting a religious divorce would be unconstitutional. The Family Court of Austra...
15 August, 2017
Attorney General criticised for mixed messages on domestic violence
The judicial system is no stranger to complaints regarding the amount of time it takes for cases to be heard. Although the case load for Federal Circuit Court j...
10 August, 2017
Proposed Changes to International Child Abduction Laws in Australia
Currently, Australia has one of the highest rates of international child abductions in the world. In 2015 to 2016, Australian parents made 92 Hague Convention a...
03 August, 2017
Serena Williams’ 75yr old father gets divorce from 38yr old wife
Richard Williams, tennis champs Serena and Venus Williams’ 75-year-old father, has filed for divorce from his 38-year-old wife. The tennis coach claims hi...
18 June, 2017
Father Wanted to Name Baby After Star Wars Character Darth Vader
Two parents told the Family Court of Australia that the father wanted to call their son “Vader” as a tribute to the Star Wars character Darth Vader....
24 May, 2017
The Biggest Shakeup in Family Law in 40 Years
Hidden away in the latest budget was a review of the Family Court system. Funding was given to establish the Parenting Management Hearings – a new decision-maki...
20 May, 2017
Spice Girl keeps 5 yr old Daughter away from her father
Mel B asks a court in Los Angeles to keep her daughter away from her father accused her husband Stephen Belafonte of posing a danger to their five-year-old daug...
30 April, 2017
Family Court Decides on Children’s $300,000 Private Education
The parents couldn’t agree on where their son and daughter should go to high school. Ms Stewart wanted her children to go to expensive private schools. The prob...
25 April, 2017
Do I have to go to court to get a divorce?
The answer is: probably not. You may be required to attend your Divorce Hearing. Most people do not attend their hearing. If the following situations app...
21 April, 2017
The Truth About Changing Your Parenting Orders
Before you enter into parenting orders Parenting orders can’t just be changed because one parent doesn’t like the way things are working with the order or ‘feel...
14 February, 2017
4 Tricks To Ensure You Have the Absolute Worst Divorce Ever
Disclaimer: We don’t advise you to have bad divorces, we promote amicable divorces where both sides behave appropriately. But if you want to know what-not-to-do...
07 February, 2017
You Don’t Need to be Rich or Famous to Get a Prenup
We’ve all heard of the multi-million dollar Hollywood Prenups. But you don’t need to be Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie to get one. Regular Aussie coupl...
16 January, 2017
Will I get 50% in my divorce?
There is a widely held belief that when a couple separates, they are automatically entitled to a 50% split of all property and assets. This may seem fair or unf...
10 January, 2017