The results of the streamlined new arrangement speak for themselves. But Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced a review.
I spent a morning surrounded by women whose once-normal lives had been turned into nightmares by their partners.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A key crossbench senator will now back the government’s planned merger of the Family Court with the Federal Circuit Court.
The Family Court heard the woman learned her husband was likely already married shortly after their 2018 nuptials in Queensland.
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.
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?
The Sydney registry of the Family Court has a"win at all costs"reputation. But proposed reforms will give judges the ability to order lawyers to personally bear the costs and to dismiss applications without merit.