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…

Whether it’s tweet-happy judges or YouTube-wielding family law litigants, social media is dramatically reshaping our court system. Two judges speak candidly about the many challenges that social media poses to our courts and the unprecedented opportunity it offers for a more transparent legal system…

Retroactively removing anonymity from donors is a terrible idea with significant repercussions. People haven’t been able to donate anonymously in Victoria since 1988 and before that not every donor’s identity was recorded, so many people desperate for their genetic history will be disappointed…

The issue was discussed in policy talks during the new-look government’s first cabinet meeting since Mr Rudd returned to the leadership, with options being pursued about how best to financially help those mostly single mothers affected…

The threats to kill, strangle and maim pets are becoming part of the regular revenge tactics of divorcing couples as they argue over the custody of children and animals…

Allegations of child sexual abuse are being increasingly invented by mothers to stop fathers from seeing their children, says a retiring Family Court judge…

A same-sex couple who hired an illiterate Indian woman to be the surrogate mother of their twins was ordered by a judge to return to India to prove she had not been exploited…

Critical ethical points have been raised by Britain becoming the first country in the world to allow mitochondrial transfer, or – to give it its proper name – “babies with three parents”. The technique was pioneered to combat a range of mitochondrial disorders with a pretty high incidence – they afflict one in 6,500…

Tasmania may have been the last Australian state to legalize homosexuality, and the first to introduce civil unions, but it has now voted to allow same-sex couples to adopt non-biological children for the first time…

REACHING a divorce settlement agreement is largely about dividing marital assets. You’ll negotiate a division of your jointly-owned real estate, stock portfolios, cash and even more unusual assets such as expensive collections of art, wine, antique guns or whatever else you have come to own together over the years…