A Brisbane judge who sentenced a father of two to jail for contempt of court in a family law case has been sharply criticised by Family Court appeal judges, who described his decision as an “affront to justice”…

Legally speaking who is a parent? It’s not a straight forward question for blended families, LGTBQI families, indigenous families with strong traditional kinship ties and children born via surrogacy or sperm or egg donation. The High Court of Australia is to hear a case commenced by a sperm donor known as Robert…

The Federal Government will today introduce legislation banning the practice of direct cross-examination of alleged victims of domestic violence, by the alleged perpetrators of that domestic violence…

The Family Court and Federal Circuit Court will be combined as part of sweeping changes to the financially and emotionally crippling family law system, in an announcement by the Attorney-General Christian Porter today…

A major review of Australia’s family law will consider whether the system is overly adversarial and examine the impact on children…

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…

When does physical discipline of a child become unlawful abuse?

The question arose in the case of a father who had beaten his two eldest children with a cricket bat, but who argued he should still be allowed to see his six-year-old son…

It seems everyone wants family law system reform. But the head of the Family Court says we should be wary of simple solutions to complex problems…

Psychiatrists are handing their patients’ confidential records to the courts amid threats of jail, under a flourishing practice by solicitors of issuing “dirt digging” subpoenas…