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Key decisions

  • Fing & Ma [2025] FedCFamC1A 168
  • Helmold & Mariya (No 2) [2025] FedCFamC1A 163
  • Bello & Opeyemi [2025] FedCFamC1A 179
  • Neville and Bowen [2025] FCWA 226

PROPERTY

The role of pleadings in family law proceedings (where ordered) – parties should be held to their pleaded case and only permitted to depart from them by leave or amendment

In Fing & Ma [2025] FedCFamC1A 168 (15 September 2025), the Full Court (Aldridge, Campton and Christie JJ) heard a husband’s appeal from McNab J’s dismissal of his application for property settlement orders (at [1]).

During the proceedings it was ordered that pleadings be filed and the husband’s deviation from his pleadings was an issue before the trial judge.

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