The commercial surrogacy laws in essentially all Australian states and territories have been criticised far and wide. Implemented to prevent the commercialisation and ultimately exploitation of people involved in the practice, all it seems to have achieved is drive people under-ground, and forced many Australians to seek overseas, that which they have been denied access to in Australia…

Let’s hope that unlike the Family Court, the Department for Child Protection can protect both these children without resorting bizarre ideologies on child welfare that can ultimately forget that children are also part of families…

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has reversed its long held view, expressed in a number of private rulings, that the deemed dividend rules contained in Division 7A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (ITAA 1936) do not apply where family companies distribute cash to either the husband or the wife as a result of Family Court Orders…

Chris Soteriou says his ex-wife, Vicky Soteriou, who plotted his attempted murder – is transferring property to her family from prison to stop him from collecting any money she owes him as a result of suing Vicky for civil damages over the attack…

A recent large-scale AIFS study of post-separation property division in a decade — involving 9000 separated parents from around Australia — has found most divorcing couples manage to divide their assets themselves without lawyers…

A married couple have chosen to live in Lebanon, but have frequented Australia for the birth of each of their children, solely for the purpose of claiming a raft of family-based welfare payments…

In this case a successful businessman did everything in his power to prevent his estranged wife from residing in the former matrimonial home, even concocting a late night fire sale of the house to a mystery buyer…

This is the case of notorious solicitor Michael Ryan, who had numerous lovers, many of them prostitutes, who have all made claims on his $8m estate as his de facto lovers, with varying degrees of success. ..

AFTER 23 years together, Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski have finalised their divorce, which will allegedly see Linda Kozlowski receive US $5.775 million (AU $6.25 million) of Hogan’s US $20 million (AU $21 million) fortune…

Another big money divorce in Melbourne, Australia between billionaire Solomon Lew and wife Rosie Lew…