Federal Attorney-General George Brandis called on judges and magistrates yesterday to start ruling on custody and property disputes to take pressure off the overloaded family and federal circuit courts…

The Turnbull government is expected to shortly commence the biggest review of the Family Law Act since it was introduced in 1976, amid pressure from Pauline Hanson to address the rights of fathers under the Act…

The method used in this study was adapted from a method that successfully predicts divorce. Reports on this method show that it predicts divorce with more than 80 per cent, and sometimes more than 90 per cent accuracy…

Divorce can take a toll. For the Chinese tycoon behind the gay dating app Grindr, that toll comes to $US1.14 billion ($1.51 billion). ..

ECCENTRIC millionaire businessman Geoffrey Edelsten is divorcing Gabi Grecko, claiming she owes him $65,000…

Joanne Young has been battling for years to secure a $3 million settlement from her ex-husband. So far she hasn’t got a cent…

Statistics from the Australian Institute of Family Studies show that divorce has gone out of fashion this millennium, with the crude divorce rate falling from 2.8 per 1000 people in 2001 to 2.1 in 2013. The decline in divorce is particularly noticeable among couples aged 25-40.

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What people may be surprised (and disappointed) to learn, however, even if there is an influx of family law matters, and the release of the Ashley Madison data is the reason for it, the fact that a person has been using the website bears little, if any, relevance to family law matters…

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Federal court-filing fees are set to rise on 1 July with increases expected to raise more than $87 million…