Separated parents should not miss out on child support payments if the other parent fails to pay their way, a Tasmanian academic has urged the federal government’s child support Inquiry…

Many separating parents are manipulating Australia’s child custody laws, in some cases to claim maximum child support, while in other cases, to avoid or reduce their child support commitments, the nation’s largest counselling group has warned the federal government…

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

Between 2010 and mid-2013, more than 3600 couples, where one partner was aged 70 or over, lodged divorce applications in the Family Court or Federal Circuit Court, court statistics show…

THE Federal Government is hoarding millions of dollars from dead-beat dads that could be helping support their partners and children…

How long will it take for the Abbott government to start counting the cost to the community of its budget changes?..

The relationships of Australia are about to get a free tune-up, courtesy of Kevin Andrews. In July this year he will introduce a program whereby couples of all persuasions — those about to be married, the already married, the unmarried, same-sex couples, those hoping to soup up a sagging sex life — will be able to apply online for a $200 counselling voucher…

A Senate inquiry is looking into the challenges facing grandparents raising their grandchildren, and how they might be better supported…

A Sydney father has won the right to vaccinate his children after a drawn-out legal battle with their mother, who is strongly opposed to immunisation…

An online ‘domestic violence study’ has been ordered offline by the University of NSW Human Research Ethics Committee due to it having breached the University’s code of ethics…