Parents locked in child custody disputes and couples going through acrimonious divorces will wait up to three years to have their cases finalised as “drastic underfunding” of the Federal Circuit Court and a mass exodus of retiring judges exacerbate already long waits…

A NSW father has been ordered by the Family Court not to ask his daughter about her school reports or force her to eat meals…

HER former husband thought she was perfectly capable of supporting herself as a legal secretary or personal assistant after their marriage broke down. But having emerged from the ”long, expensive and fraught litigation” that followed their separation, the woman wanted nothing more to do with lawyers or the law – and the Family Court has ordered her former husband pay her $1000 a week while she retrains for another career.
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