For chartered accountant Kylie Parker, who is about the embark on her third marriage, making sure there is a record of what is brought into the union is top-of-mind…

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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Modern marriages have become expensive public statements without contractual teeth. Women (and men whose wives have much greater earning potential) have lost the ability to constrain their own or their spouses’ future behaviour…

It was an autumn wedding. He was 78, about to move into a nursing home and suffering from dementia. She was his 49-year-old former cleaner.
Weeks earlier, she had accompanied her fiance to his solicitor to change his will to leave her everything. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and the groom’s family challenged the marriage in the Family Court.
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Why don’t we borrow from real estate and create a marital lease? Instead of wedlock, a “wedlease.”..

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

A MAN whose bride did not tell him she had AIDS has lost a battle to have his marriage declared void…

LIBERAL Party frontbencher Tony Abbott wants laws toughened up to make divorce harder. ..