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1: What Is The Divorce Rate In Australia? | August 11, 2020

The Australian Institute of Family studies reports that the divorce rate (divorces per 1,000 Australian residents) has fallen in the 2000s and was at its lowest rate since 1976 in 2016 at just 1.9…

2: What are Muslim women’s options in religious divorce? | June 11, 2020

Both Muslim men and women are allowed to divorce in the Islamic tradition. But community interpretations of Islamic laws mean that men are able to divorce their wives unilaterally, while women must secure their husband’s consent…

3: Why everyone should have an advance care directive | March 14, 2020

This is an important tool in the context of COVID-19 and its impact on aged care homes, but one should not wait to enter hospital or aged care to implement a plan…

4: Family Court report writer charged with sexually abusing three children | January 1, 2020

An accused paedophile has been used as an expert by the Family Court in custody disputes that involve allegations of child sexual abuse…

5: Death duties (Inheritance taxes) in Australia are Inevitable, says expert | November 8, 2019

Australian taxpayers are “bound to” be hit with an inheritance tax, Chief of financial advice firm Stanford Brown, Jonathan Hoyle has said, pointing to similar policies in the UK and US…

6: How to assist victims of financial abuse | August 17, 2019

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…

7: Family Court Judge’s ruling overturned by Appeal Court as a ‘gross miscarriage of justice’ | July 21, 2019

A Brisbane judge who sentenced a father of two to jail for contempt of court in a family law case has been sharply criticised by Family Court appeal judges, who described his decision as an “affront to justice”…

8: Woman’s dying wishes determined by Facebook relationship status | March 23, 2019

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…

9: Sweeping changes to family court announced | June 17, 2018

The Family Court and Federal Circuit Court will be combined as part of sweeping changes to the financially and emotionally crippling family law system, in an announcement by the Attorney-General Christian Porter today…

10: How to stop elder financial abuse in your family | March 29, 2018

In Australia, it is estimated that at least 10 per cent of older Australians suffer from financial abuse each year. The surprising factor is that their adult children are most likely the perpetrators.

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