Family law: August 2026
Key family law developments address disputed assets, challenges to consent orders, business valuation evidence and the welfare of a surrogate-born child.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readKey family law developments address disputed assets, challenges to consent orders, business valuation evidence and the welfare of a surrogate-born child.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readAbuse of process, trust interests in property settlements, litigation funding orders and the use of concurrent expert evidence.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readThe latest cases consider an appeal against sentence for aid and abet child abduction, kinship care and unacceptable risk, contributions assessment and apprehended bias.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readDecisions on business valuation, seeking unpaid entitlements from third parties, parenting orders and commercial surrogacy, and parental fixation on gender affirmation.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readDecisions addressing expert report use, exclusion of convictions evidence, receiving advice from your own practice and declining to make orders by consent.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readDecisions addressing parenting applications involving artificial conception, non-disclosure of assets and apprehended bias.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readDecisions addressing the definition of family violence, variation of parental orders, de facto property adjustment and subpoena objections. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readDecisions addressing de facto relationship length, application of recent amendments and determining property value. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readCases discussing the Stanford and Harman precedents, AI use in litigation, and consent orders with mentally disabled people. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readCases discussing discrete hearings, what constitutes a de facto relationship, and financial agreements before marriage. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readCases on reasonable supervision orders, what makes an outcome better than a settlement and the Harman obligation. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min readThird-party disclosure, delay exceptions, child support assessments and confidential material in family violence defences. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 2 min readAppeals for procedural orders, apprehended bias, ICL orders and section 60CC of the Family Law Act 1975. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
By Craig Nicol and Keleigh Robinson - 1 min read