The spate of cases raises questions about the legal rights a child born to an overseas surrogate has in Australia, and what rights Australians who engage in surrogacy agreements have in Thailand and other countries..

The Attorney-General, George Brandis, has released the Family Law Council’s report on Parentage and the Family Law Act, which calls for a coordinated international response to the issue of overseas surrogacy arrangements…

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…

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…

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. ..

A lawyer representing schoolgirl Layla Leisha has obtained a Family Court order allowing a public appeal for information about her whereabouts…

Between 2010 and mid-2013, more than 3600 couples, where one partner was aged 70 or over, lodged divorce applications in the Family Court or Federal Circuit Court, court statistics show…

A woman barred by a landmark Federal Circuit Court decision from leaving Warrnambool district and moving to Western Australia with two of her sons because of their Aboriginal heritage…