Around Australia, many family lawyers are on a delicate mission: helping parents and grandparents navigate how to help loved ones financially while still protecting their assets if there’s a break-up…

As a divorce lawyer practicing in Sydney for the last 15 years, I have learnt something important: the only person you can count on is yourself…

IT’S A sad reality of modern life that marriages that have taken decades to build can be thrown away in under a year. These days a marriage can be dissolved literally with the click of a mouse with the online …..

Binding financial agreements are hardly the most romantic of topics for a couple to discuss before they get married or move in together but it is for good reason that they should be raised early in any new relationship…

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. ..

From December 27, 2000, a BFA could be entered into between spouses who are contemplating marriage, those who are already married or those who have separated or divorced…