It was a Family Court psychologist’s report that came with a heavy cost. Not only in monetary terms — although at $25,000 the psychologist’s fees were high. But also in its human toll, which continues more than seven years after it was handed to the Family Court of Western Australia…

Australian taxpayers are “bound to” be hit with an inheritance tax, Chief of financial advice firm Stanford Brown, Jonathan Hoyle has said, pointing to similar policies in the UK and US…

MORE families are taking steps to confirm their children’s parentage but it doesn’t have to be a harrowing experience…

Cass Thorburn has opened up about the “massive challenge” of co-parenting with Karl Stefanovic following their acrimonious divorce…

A young girl’s fortunes have changed after she was rejected first by her mother, her father and then by 20 potential adoptive families, to be finally adopted by a gay, single male…

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has accused women of making up domestic violence claims in order to get custody of their children, as she defended a new parliamentary inquiry into the family law system…

The High Court has found a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian friend to have a child is the father, due to his involvement in the child’s life…

A woman has asked the Family Court to order the destruction of 12 embryos — even though she has no genetic link to them…

Identical twin brothers liked impersonating each other to sleep with lots of women. Now, both of their names will go on one baby’s birth certificate…

An Australian girl’s biological mother and her sperm donor father have spent $1.5 million on a court feud over whether the biological father, who has played the role as father to the child since birth, should have any parental rights. ..