Selling a Property on Behalf of a Separating Couple
- April 30, 2015
DIVORCE – FAMILY LAW 101 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW Every Real Estate Agent that has ever walked the earth will no doubt at one stage or another be approached by either an individual or a couple with a request to sell a property as a consequence of a break down in a marriage or a…
Divorce – To Gift or Not to Gift?
- February 4, 2015
With the cost of housing and general living expenses these days sky rocketing, parents of adult children and even grandparents and extended family are understandably often motivated to provide some financial assistance to their children as they begin to take their first steps into the adult world. In the situations where the children themselves are…
Divorce and Competing Religious Beliefs
- July 29, 2014
According to some sources, there are presently as many as 4200 major separate religious affiliations to which members of the Australian population could potentially belong (4200 +1 if you count the religious order of Jedi knights as more than 70,000 Australians tried to do in the 2001 census). Given that there is now around 20%…
Divorce- What to do when you can’t agree on the value of the assets
- July 10, 2014
In plenty of family law cases, spouses are actually able to agree on what the percentage division should be, for example, 50/50, 60/40 etc, but then find themselves locked into serious conflict over how that percentage division should actually be achieved. In these conflicts, the point of argument is almost always turns on the question…
Divorce- Do the Children ever get a Say
- March 27, 2014
Relevance of Children’s Wishes On the breakdown of a family unit, decisions obviously need to be made about where the children are to live. For many, a good dose of common sense and child focus make it possible for agreements to be reached and adhered to with minimal quarrel. Sadly for others, the blinding effect…
Legal loop holes to cause major problems for De Facto couples
- March 6, 2014
In 2009 new laws were introduced into Australia which were, for the first time, supposed to give de facto couples the same rights as married couples when it came to a breakdown in the relationship and separation. Some recent decisions from cases in the Family court however have now made it very clear that all…
Using a Power of Attorney to make Family payments
- January 10, 2014
Drop into any domestic family situation anywhere in the world and a culture of “share and share alike” can usually be found. When the family is young, practically everything becomes “communal” except maybe personal clothing and sometimes even that! As the children grow up and parents grow old however, the money, property and favours that…
When can long service leave be counted in a divorce settlement?
- June 12, 2013
Originating in India during British Colonial rule as a restricted privilege for some Government employees and practically non-existent elsewhere in the world, employee long service leave entitlements have nonetheless grown to become culturally ingrained in the Australian workforce. Generally the entitlement is for two calendar months of paid leave on attaining 10 years of continuous…
Character Assassination in Family Law
- January 31, 2013
According to popular opinion, the bubonic “black plague” which ravaged and ultimately killed between 30 and 60% of the European population in the late 1340’s was caused and spread by the rats living in those areas at that time. Scientific investigation however, shows that the disease was never in the rats but instead carried by…