When it comes to divvying up your estate after death, testamentary trusts are often touted as an option. They can be a way to ‘rule from the grave’, giving you more control over the way your assets are distributed – placing them in a trust, rather than having them given directly to your beneficiaries…

Hundreds of couples are claiming false marital and relationship status to rort millions of dollars from Centrelink…

The positive outcomes of the cancelled outreach program is in stark contrast to the overwhelmingly poor feedback regarding their contact with the Department’s Child Support Program (formerly the Child Support Agency)…

The Department of Human Services has spent more than half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money in legal fees fighting a child support dispute over $6000…

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…

De facto couples – even those who have a child and live together – have significant social, financial and emotional “differences” to married couples, according to a Federal Circuit Court judge…

With the Federal Election looming, it is interesting to note the policies of each of the major political parties with respect to family law issues…

THE federal government has dropped cases against 18 people charged with welfare fraud following a High Court ruling over retrospective legislation…

A SINGLE mother will have to repay more than $15,000 in Centrelink overpayments she claimed while working for an insurance company…

If age pensioners go overseas for more than six weeks and get the Pension Supplement in Australia, after six weeks this is reduced to Pension Supplement Basic Amount, but is reinstated as soon as they return to Australia…