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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…
A Gold Coast family law specialist has responded to a new law put in place for nationwide protection of domestic violence victims…
A major review of Australia’s family law will consider whether the system is overly adversarial and examine the impact on children…
Federal Attorney-General George Brandis called on judges and magistrates yesterday to start ruling on custody and property disputes to take pressure off the overloaded family and federal circuit courts…
The Turnbull government is expected to shortly commence the biggest review of the Family Law Act since it was introduced in 1976, amid pressure from Pauline Hanson to address the rights of fathers under the Act…
Federal court-filing fees are set to rise on 1 July with increases expected to raise more than $87 million…
Retired Family Court judge Richard Chisholm has written a blueprint for overhauling Australia’s Family Law Act recommending the removal of Shared Parenting as a potential outcome in Family Law Court proceedings…
Children should get more of a say during family law battles about who they live with after their parents split, says National Children’s Commissioner Megan Mitchell…
Under new proposals child support would be paid to single parents regardless of whether the other parent contributes..
ONE of the nation’s top judges has called for a separate, less formal tribunal to deal with family law cases involving extreme domestic violence, arguing that the current adversarial system is not the right place for women who have been badly abused…