CUTS to the nation’s 65 Family Relationship Centres have prompted more than half to reduce staffing and put families at risk. ..

FAMILY Relationship Centres have called for the revenue from court fee increases of 20 per cent intended to deter vexatious litigants to be redirected to mediation services to help at-risk children…

If successful, it could be the first property split in an “ongoing” marriage in Australia. The husband is relying on a legal loophole that allows property proceedings not only in cases of separation or divorce, but in any other “fact or circumstance”…

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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