The New South Wales Government has defended a decision to end funding for the Welfare Rights Centre. The centre helps individuals and families negotiate Centrelink decisions, with clients including vulnerable families, young people, those with disabilities, the unemployed and the …..

A newlywed found out her “husband” was already married after getting a message on Facebook from his wife…

SOME carers are ripping off the very people they are supposed to look after by demanding money be left to them in wills, an estate lawyer has revealed…

ADULT children are demanding a greater share of their parents’ estates and are eating into assets to fight for more money…

A $2 million payment error was deposited into a Sunshine Coast mum’s bank account because a child support worker typed the date into the payment field on her computer…

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…

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…

The cost of raising a first child to the age of 18 in Hobart is just over a quarter of a million dollars, or $268,629, according to the only state-by-state breakdown of the cost of kids in Australia…

A growing trend of alcohol abuse by Australian women is behind an increase in divorces and other family disputes before the courts, the head of Slater & Gordon’s family law practice has claimed…

Private investigators, secret tapes, the hacking of social media pages and the manipulation of children – nothing is above litigants in the highly charged atmosphere of divorce and custody proceedings in the Family Court…