Court Orders include Parenting Orders, Consent Orders and Financial Orders. Once an Order is made, each party affected by the Order must comply with it. But what can one do in the event of a breach of Court Orders or an AVO?..

This article discusses what the Court might consider when dealing with parenting orders sought by same-sex parents and whether biological parents have an advantage in Court…

This article details how Family Tax Benefit payments are allocated to each parent when the custody of the children is shared between them…

This article will consider the meaning of “reasonably practicable” as it appears in section 65DAA of the FLA , and how it operates to allow or prevent cases where one of the parties seeks equal time or shared parenting orders…

There is a common misconception by parents entering family law litigation of seeking to preserve their parental rights, however this is not the case as the Family Law Act 1975[1] is almost entirely focussed on a parental responsibilities – especially when there is the underlying principle in family law that the “best interests of a child” must come first…