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How to Divorce Proof a Gifted Asset to your Child
11: How to Divorce Proof a Gifted Asset to your Child | March 22, 2014

Sharing the family assets by giving adult offspring an early inheritance may seem like a good idea. But what happens if they split from their partner, and those hard-won assets walk out the door?..





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12: Childless Brides Warned to Reject Pre-Nups | February 9, 2014

Women embarking on a first marriage and planning to have children should not enter into a prenuptial agreement because it is likely to financially disadvantage them later, family law experts warn…





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13: Chinese Official Shamed Over Adulterous Love-Affair Contract | November 19, 2013

A Communist Party official is relieved of his duties after a contract between him and his mistress leaked onto the internet revealing how the pair had agreed binding terms for their illicit affair…





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14: A Binding Child Support Agreement Can Be Set Aside | October 21, 2013

A binding child support agreement can be set aside based on exceptional circumstances. An exceptional circumstance is when the agreement will cause hardship of a serious nature and inequity to the applicant. The father failed to prove the exceptional circumstance in his case…





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15: Talking divorce before tying the knot | July 10, 2013

In a recent research report titled Untying the Knot, Suncorp Superannuation asked married and divorced people about retirement ages and found that while both groups were on par when it came to ideal retirement ages, there was a big gap when they had to be realistic…





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16: Grant Hackett to sue second law firm over pre-nuptial agreement with wife Candice Alley | April 26, 2013

SWIM star Grant Hackett is suing a second law firm over what he says was a botched pre-nuptial agreement with pop star wife Candice Alley…





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17: Don’t feed the frenzy of lawyers | April 17, 2013

IT’S A sad reality of modern life that marriages that have taken decades to build can be thrown away in under a year. These days a marriage can be dissolved literally with the click of a mouse with the online …..





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18: Shock pre-nup court decision | April 10, 2013

A FATHER of two from Balgowlah has been awarded up to $800,000 in damages after he successfully sued his lawyers for negligence claiming a pre-nup they created was useless in shielding his assets from a divorce…





What to be aware of before entering a Pre-nup
19: What to be aware of before entering a Pre-nup | April 10, 2013

In Australia a pre-nup is simply a binding financial agreement that sits under the Family Law Act. It’s a legal contract that can be entered into by married couples, same-sex couples and those in de facto relationships…





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20: With these assets, I thee wed | March 5, 2013

An upcoming decision in the Family Court is set to test the controversial legislation on which these prenups are based…




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Jurisdiction is the power or authority provided to the Family Court by the Family Law Act 1975 to deal with matters covered by the Act.
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