The assets of those who split up are $180,000 to $190,000 less than non-divorced people and the gap doubles to $360,000 to $390,000 six years after divorce. The annual household income of divorced women fell by an average of $10,000 in the first year after divorce but for men it increased by $7000…

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

The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that from 2007 to 2009, the number of people under 30 who divorced after less than four years of marriage increased by almost 12 per cent, from 5394 to 6024…

THE marriage of a young Indian couple has been declared “absolutely null and void” by a court because the groom was forced to wed…

HAVING regular sex with a house mate does not mean you’re in a “relationship” – even if the arrangement lasts more than a decade, a judge has ruled…

The consequences of child abduction can be lasting, says Antony Milch, a child psychiatrist. The trauma of living as a fugitive can affect their sense of identity, their stability and their ability to form relationships…

A SPERM donor who secretly fathered two girls in two Australian states four years apart will raise his eldest daughter and have sole rights to decide where she goes to school after winning a bitter custody dispute…

Some leading doctors and ethicists are calling for uniform national laws to guarantee a dying person’s wishes, as expressed in a living will, are respected by doctors and hospitals. They say new medical technology is sometimes prolonging life unnecessarily…

IT is hard to see the fruits of a marriage detailed on a spreadsheet, but it is the only way to separate fact from emotion during a divorce, financial experts and family court lawyers say…

PARENTS involved in family law disputes would be prevented from recording their confrontations if new surveillance laws are passed…