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31: Protecting Gifts to Children in the Event of Divorce | August 21, 2014

Parents wanting to help children buy their first home, but who want to retain control, can buy a property in their name or that of a trust. The problem is at some point the property must be transferred into the son or daughter’s name…




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32: How to Bring an Overseas-born Surrogate Child Back to Australia | August 21, 2014

The spate of cases raises questions about the legal rights a child born to an overseas surrogate has in Australia, and what rights Australians who engage in surrogacy agreements have in Thailand and other countries..




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33: Family Law Council Recommendations on Surrogacy Laws | August 18, 2014

The Attorney-General, George Brandis, has released the Family Law Council’s report on Parentage and the Family Law Act, which calls for a coordinated international response to the issue of overseas surrogacy arrangements…




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34: Australian Taxation Office Just Made Divorce A Lot More Expensive | August 4, 2014

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has reversed its long held view, expressed in a number of private rulings, that the deemed dividend rules contained in Division 7A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (ITAA 1936) do not apply where family companies distribute cash to either the husband or the wife as a result of Family Court Orders…




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35: Mothers ‘faking domestic violence’ to keep children, Child Support Inquiry told | June 25, 2014

MOTHERS are faking domestic violence to secure custody of their children, a parliamentary inquiry has been told…




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36: If Spouse Has Sex-Change, Divorce is Legally Required | June 14, 2014

A LAW that forces married couples to divorce if one partner changes sex is “cruel” and should be axed, according to Greens upper house MP from both NSW and South Australia…




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37: Mother escapes jail but loses custody of 3 y/o child abducted to Europe | May 29, 2014

A mother who abducted her three-year-old son and secreted him to Europe for 2½ years has been handed a 28-day good ­behaviour bond by the ­District Court of NSW…




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38: Where there’s a will, there’s a writ | May 6, 2014

The number of will disputes reaching the Supreme Court has shot up by almost 60 per cent since 2005, with blended families, entitled grandchildren and burgeoning estate values driving up the number of claims…




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39: Taxman gets access to documents in Family Court feud | May 2, 2014

Warring couples may think twice about airing their dirty laundry in the Family Court after it ruled the Tax Office could use financial information filed in one dispute to audit the parties for potential tax evasion…




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40: De facto couples have differences to married counterparts, judge says | April 23, 2014

De facto couples – even those who have a child and live together – have significant social, financial and emotional “differences” to married couples, according to a Federal Circuit Court judge…