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Seeing both sides of family law

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The review and its recommendations are at least as controversial as the four-year-old law, finding that shared parenting laws had been misinterpreted, and were never meant to give a 50-50 custody split to each parent…

Law system reports are all in the family

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Three reports evaluating aspects of Australia’s family law system have been released by the Attorney-General, Robert McClelland. ..

Australia Releases Family Law Reforms Evaluation

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The most comprehensive evaluation of Australia’s family law system – drawing on the experience of 28,000 Australians – has found that overall the recent reforms are working well for the majority of children and their parents. ..

Removals of children on the rise

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The number of Canberra children who have been removed from abusive or neglectful parents is increasing, a new report says…

Pre-nups: changes make things easier

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Changes to the law relating to binding financial agreements (BFA) between spouses and de-facto parties have been made to make them easier to enter into and more binding. The reforms will operate retrospectively, so it will affect those people who have already entered into a BFA. ..

Father’s battle for 50-50 custody long and expensive

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Mr B said he was accused in court of being “a bad husband, a bad father” and he believes that were it not for the Howard government’s shared parenting laws, which require the Family Court to presume that a child’s best interests are served by having a “meaningful” relationship with both parents after separation, he would not have been given any responsibility for his son, let alone equal time…

Duped dad wins custody of boy in historic Family Court decision

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A MAN who discovered in a custody hearing he was not his son’s biological father has made legal history…