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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…
What’s interesting is in many of the multi-million dollar divorce cases which have made it to court, the wife has received less than half of the assets…
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…
FAMILY law matters in indigenous communities will be heard outside courtrooms and a team established to help Aborigines under a plan being considered by the Federal Circuit Court…
If you had to stand up and represent yourself in family court, how would you cope? It’s probably something we should all be thinking about, because hiring a lawyer is expensive and legal aid budgets are under extreme stress so flying solo in court is increasingly common. This articles explores the common pitfalls and issues that arise in the face of self-representation in our court system…
In a speech titled ”Everything I’ve Always Wanted To Say”, recently retired Family Court judge Linda Dessau says overly combative family lawyers can give parents misguided advice and put families through unnecessary, drawn-out legal battles…
A Queensland newspaper has been fined $120,000 for illegally identifying a family involved in a court custody battle. This was in breach of Section 121 of the Family Law Act 1975…
A father who was alleged to have bashed his partner and held a samurai sword to their daughter’s throat was still allowed weekly access to the child because the mother had a significant history of false allegations and exhibited unreasonable behaviour, including false allegations of child sexual abuse…
It was an autumn wedding. He was 78, about to move into a nursing home and suffering from dementia. She was his 49-year-old former cleaner.
Weeks earlier, she had accompanied her fiance to his solicitor to change his will to leave her everything. But the course of true love never did run smooth, and the groom’s family challenged the marriage in the Family Court.
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A multi-millionaire property investor’s son, who was left nothing in his late father’s will, has been awarded $3 million dollars from his father’s $27 million estate…









