Family Court
- Opinion
- Opinion
Coalition reforms have fixed the family court system. Labor should leave it be
The results of the streamlined new arrangement speak for themselves. But Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced a review.
- George Brandis
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- Opinion
- Domestic violence
Behind the locked doors of a DV safe room wasn’t my life, until suddenly it was
I spent a morning surrounded by women whose once-normal lives had been turned into nightmares by their partners.
- Julie Lewis
Legal bungle casts doubt on Family Court decisions
The Federal Circuit and Family Court and the federal government are working to fix a legal bungle that could affect hundreds of people with child custody and divorce settlement orders.
- Katina Curtis
- Exclusive
- National
Rise in vaccination disputes hitting the Family Court
The courts have seen a rise in the number of claims related to vaccination and children, but also disputes where one parent has stopped letting their child spend time with the other unvaccinated parent.
- Simone Fox Koob
The Warren Buffett lesson Hamish Douglass is yet to learn
Magellan’s founder Hamish Douglass regularly quotes the 90-year-old investment legend, but there is one aspect of Buffett’s career Douglass hasn’t emulated.
- Charlotte Grieve
- Exclusive
- Divorce
The rise of collaborative divorce: Families with ‘skin in the game’ avoiding court
More separating couples are avoiding the well-worn path to the Family Court by engaging in “collaborative divorce” where the professionals work as a team and all parties commit to not go to court.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Family Court merger set to pass after government wins over key senator
A key crossbench senator will now back the government’s planned merger of the Family Court with the Federal Circuit Court.
- Katina Curtis
Wife takes court action after discovering husband already married
The Family Court heard the woman learned her husband was likely already married shortly after their 2018 nuptials in Queensland.
- Michaela Whitbourn
$6 million in legal fees: The high price of getting a divorce in Sydney
The high price of marriage breakdown has led to litigation funders - usually associated with class actions - moving into family law to pay fees upfront in exchange for a percentage of the settlement.
- Harriet Alexander
'Anything can happen here': How the Family Court failed to live up to its promise
The Family Court of Australia was once the envy of the developed world for the way it approached disputes between separating couples. Now the government wants to do away with it. What went wrong?
- Harriet Alexander
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