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1: Coronavirus and family law: What you need to know | March 26, 2020

Resolving family law matters can be challenging and stressful at the best of times, but right now it is especially hard due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Here is some information and updates about how the Coronavirus is impacting family law matters and what this may mean for you…




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2: 10 Ways an Ex Can Hide Money From You | December 25, 2019

In the midst of separation or divorce, some male and female ex-partners go to extreme lengths to hide money in order to reduce their future liabilities to the other parent/ex-partner or children of the relationship. ..




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3: Millie Phillips, once Australia’s richest woman, creates chaos over her Will | November 19, 2019

The dirty laundry of a wealthy Sydney family has been aired in court during a battle over the colourful 90-year-old matriarch’s multimillion-dollar fortune…




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4: Cass Thorburn spills on difficulties of co-parenting with Karl Stefanovic | October 3, 2019

Cass Thorburn has opened up about the “massive challenge” of co-parenting with Karl Stefanovic following their acrimonious divorce…




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5: Divorce Hotel (Weekend Collaborative Divorce) is coming to Australia | August 30, 2019

After seeing his best friend’s extremely messy divorce in 2011, Jim Halfens thought there had to be a better way to do divorce. Seven years later, Jim’s now the CEO of his own divorce business, DivorceHotel, a concept he developed in the Netherlands and has experienced success in the US and UK markets. Halfens now has plans to expand DivorceHotel into Australia in 2019…




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6: From Pre-Nups to Pet-Nups: Marriage Generation Z style | August 24, 2019

Generation Z couples, those born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s, are opting for increasingly practical pre-martial contracts, many containing clauses about pet custody in the event of divorce. ..




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7: Family Court Judge’s ruling overturned by Appeal Court as a ‘gross miscarriage of justice’ | July 21, 2019

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”…




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8: Can you sue for divorce caused by a cheating partner in Australia? Short answer, ‘No’, sort of | March 22, 2019

Changes were made to the Family Law Act in 1975 that did away with moralising about infidelity…




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9: Dad wins $500k after wife lied about paternity of their 3 children | March 2, 2019

A man has successfully sued his ex-wife after discovering she’d lied to him for more than two decades. But the cost of the truth has proved bigger than his bank balance…




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10: Mother loses legal fight to change child’s surname after divorce | February 16, 2019

Ms Jones and Mr Beves are the parents of two children. The second child, Georgie, was born after the breakdown of the marriage. When Georgie was born, Ms Jones sought to register the surname ‘Jones’ and then as a compromise ‘ Beves -Jones’ for Georgie. She also has indicated that she wishes to change the older child’s surname to to ‘Beves -Jones’…