Category: Family Law

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How Does The Current COVID-19 Lockdown Affect Your Parenting Arrangements?
POSTED: 20 Jul 2021
Family Law
Unfortunately, Greater Sydney currently finds itself in its second extended lockdown (barring the Northern Beaches lockdown in December 2020) since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.
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Binding Financial Agreements AKA Prenups - Beware of Unfair Advantage! 
POSTED: 08 Jun 2021
Family Law
A Binding Financial Agreement is an agreement which parties may enter into at the start of their marriage or de-facto relationship. These agreements are normally created to ensure that each party retains certain property in the unfortunate event of a relationship breakdown.
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Prenups and Power Imbalance
POSTED: 12 May 2021
Family Law
Australia has an increasingly globalised population. The 2016 Census states that one-quarter of Australians are born overseas. Many overseas Australians migrated to Australia for love. In some instances, a practice for Australians sponsoring an overseas partner to migrate to Australia, is to ensure that they enter into a prenuptial agreement.
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‘Parental Alienation’ in the Family Law System
POSTED: 26 Apr 2021
Family Law
Should we use Parental Alienation as a term at all?
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In my shoes??
POSTED: 22 Mar 2021
Family Law
Case Guardians are individuals who are appointed to assist those whose capacity to understand the consequences of proceedings comes into question, or where a client is unable to give instructions. Case Guardians step into that persons shoes and do all things to act in their best interests and make decisions...
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Adults Can Be Adopted Too
POSTED: 08 Feb 2021
Family Law
When we think of adoption, we automatically think of younger children being adopted by a stepparent, relative or foster parent. What few people are aware of, or think of, is that NSW legislation also provides a mechanism for adults to be adopted.
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Can I Record My Ex for Evidence in Parenting Proceedings?
POSTED: 16 Nov 2020
Family Law
In the Family Law world, we can come across situations where a party is behaving inappropriately in parenting proceedings. The other parent often makes a recording during changeover, or during an altercation, and asks – Can we use this in Court?
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Can’t Afford to Go to Court? Get your Ex to Pay
POSTED: 12 Oct 2020
Family Law
In family law disputes, it is not uncommon for one spouse to be less financially secure than the other. Family law litigation can be expensive. A spouse who proceeds to a final hearing will need to fund a barrister, experts, subpoena fees and solicitor fees to run their hearing.
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Budget Increase for Family Law and Relationship Services
POSTED: 07 Oct 2020
Family Law
On 6 October 2020 Scott Morrison released the national budget for the 2020 – 2021, and has made areas concerning Family Law, domestic violence and relationship services a significant area of focus.
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What Happens if You or Your Former Spouse Want to Move Away With the Children?
POSTED: 30 Sep 2020
Family Law
Situations where one parent wants to move to a different city, state or even country with the children and the other parent is opposed to that occurring, are called “relocation cases” in the Family Courts.
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