TWO short pregnancies were among the reasons a woman should get a larger property settlement from her millionaire former defacto, a judge has found…

In a recent research report titled Untying the Knot, Suncorp Superannuation asked married and divorced people about retirement ages and found that while both groups were on par when it came to ideal retirement ages, there was a big gap when they had to be realistic…

REACHING a divorce settlement agreement is largely about dividing marital assets. You’ll negotiate a division of your jointly-owned real estate, stock portfolios, cash and even more unusual assets such as expensive collections of art, wine, antique guns or whatever else you have come to own together over the years…

THE ex-wives of two brothers at the helm of a Queensland farming and mining company have snared the lion’s share of the family fortune after a legal showdown with one of their own children for the money…

A MAN had a heart attack after discovering his wife had spent $170,000 on her lover during an affair, a court has heard. The husband claimed his wife had spent $201,000 on the affair. He fought to have her made responsible for the missing money in their divorce settlement…

Private investigators, secret tapes, the hacking of social media pages and the manipulation of children – nothing is above litigants in the highly charged atmosphere of divorce and custody proceedings in the Family Court…

If successful, it could be the first property split in an “ongoing” marriage in Australia. The husband is relying on a legal loophole that allows property proceedings not only in cases of separation or divorce, but in any other “fact or circumstance”…

Financial planners and accountants need to know how their clients’ relationship status is seen in the eyes of the law, according to lawyer Nabil Wahhab, or things like super splitting after a break-up can get very complicated…

AN ex-wife who is battling cancer has won a bitter court fight to stay put in a $3 million mansion in Queensland after a failed bid by her ex-husband to kick her out of the former marital home…

Self-managed superannuation funds are a new battlefront for affluent divorcing couples seeking their fair share of assets, which stay legally bound long after the relationship is over…