There are “strong indications” that somewhere between 50 per cent to 90 per cent of family violence cases involve economic abuse, and as such, it is imperative that lawyers know how to support clients through such traumatic incidences, argues one boutique practitioner…

The Facebook profile of a woman who recently died from cancer is among the resources used by a court to determine who should carry out her final wishes…

The death of a loved one can be hard enough to deal with without the extra worry about the cost of carrying out their wishes. Key decisions — including the executor of the will, whether to die at home or whether you are buried among the trees or cremated — all involve a financial burden and much easier made when family members are not bereaved…

With husband, former NRL player David Fifita looking on, a relieved Jade Robinson bowed her head as a magistrate told her she would not be jailed for fraudulently pocketing almost $50,000 from Centrelink when claiming to be a struggling single mum…

The wife of a wealthy WA mining executive has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for receiving more than $62,000 in social security payments she was not entitled to…

A review of what ‘other’ payments can be accepted by Child Support where a payer is paying child support to a payee and where the payee does not agree that the payment made by the payer is for the support of the child(ren) or in other words… is paid as child support…

Non-genuine couples who have orchestrated “fake marriages” to gain Australian visas and then claim separate welfare cheques will be stripped of entitlements as part of a nationwide crackdown to be announced by the Federal Government today…

Hundreds of couples are claiming false marital and relationship status to rort millions of dollars from Centrelink…

A man who married a 12-year-old girl in an Islamic ceremony in New South Wales is jailed for at least seven and a half years, and up to a maximum of ten years…

The Department of Human Services has spent more than half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money in legal fees fighting a child support dispute over $6000…