EMOTIONS can run high at Christmas as fractured families attempt to find common ground. Reminds me of something the late comic George Burns said: “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”..

AS children line up to place their present orders with Santa, mums and dads will be putting in orders of their own – court orders on which parent will get to spend Christmas Day with the children…

MORE couples are divorcing online as time-poor partners favour a more convenient way to separate…

MORE divorced couples are going to war over their pets and organising custody agreements…

THE Chief Justice of the Family Court has called for a radical change to the law to provide more protection to family members at risk of violence. In what could be a contentious proposal, Chief Justice Diana Bryant wants information …..

REFORM is needed to end the “disconnected” relationship between the Family Court and state child welfare agencies, support groups say.
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