Recent cuts in funding for Victoria Legal Aid have had a significant impact in the field of family law. As a result of the limited resources available, many parties involved in child custody battles have had to endure the traumatic experience of representing...
A recent Australian study into the dynamics of couples post-separation has disabused a commonly held misconception that the separation process is always one tainted by animosity, legal proceedings and endless squabble. The study reveals that separating couples are...
Henrietta Cook reports that not-for-profit organisation, Safe Futures Foundation, is trialling new safety measures with a handful of domestic violence victims throughout Melbourne. The trial sees victims equipped with duress alarms and the installation of CCTV cameras...
In a Parramatta Federal Circuit Court case, the court ordered a father who had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, to have only day time access to his two children aged 11 and nine between the hours of one in 5 PM. The mother was given sole parental...
The court has power to stop a third person being present during a parent’s time with a child. A Family Court Judge did so in the case of Gardiner & Rivers [2014] FCCA 76, when it stopped the father from permitting his new de facto spouse being present at his time...
There is a significant risk if a party makes a false representation as to assets, that a BFA was voidable at the election of the party relying on the false representation and was set aside. In the case of Adame & Adame [2014] FCCA 42, the Federal Circuit Court of...
