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…

DIVORCE is a huge, costly and emotional expense, so it may come as no surprise that a number of companies out there are cashing in on your heartbreak.

Industries ranging from law to counselling and childcare services are all reaping the benefits of Australia’s growing divorce rate, according to data collected by business information analysts at IBISWorld…

A growing trend of alcohol abuse by Australian women is behind an increase in divorces and other family disputes before the courts, the head of Slater & Gordon’s family law practice has claimed…

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…

The assets of those who split up are $180,000 to $190,000 less than non-divorced people and the gap doubles to $360,000 to $390,000 six years after divorce. The annual household income of divorced women fell by an average of $10,000 in the first year after divorce but for men it increased by $7000…

MORE couples are divorcing online as time-poor partners favour a more convenient way to separate…