Family law: November 2025
Decisions on key principles governing trust property, procedural fairness, parenting orders and s 75(2) adjustments.
Decisions on key principles governing trust property, procedural fairness, parenting orders and s 75(2) adjustments.
The courts discuss procedural fairness, gifts and third parties in the context of property contributions, and anti-suit injunctions.
The courts grapple with the relevance of past violence, consequences of non-disclosure and consideration of family violence in contributions assessment.
The family courts discuss the parentage of a child born by in vitro fertilisation, binding financial agreements without independent legal advice, and more.
The family courts discuss capital gains tax deductions, the finality of parenting orders, procedural fairness and false testimony in property adjustment proceedings.
Decisions on business valuation, seeking unpaid entitlements from third parties, parenting orders and commercial surrogacy, and parental fixation on gender affirmation.
Decisions addressing expert report use, exclusion of convictions evidence, receiving advice from your own practice and declining to make orders by consent.
Decisions addressing parenting applications involving artificial conception, non-disclosure of assets and apprehended bias.
Decisions addressing the definition of family violence, variation of parental orders, de facto property adjustment and subpoena objections. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Decisions addressing de facto relationship length, application of recent amendments and determining property value. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Cases discussing the Stanford and Harman precedents, AI use in litigation, and consent orders with mentally disabled people. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Appeals for procedural orders, apprehended bias, ICL orders and section 60CC of the Family Law Act 1975. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
The courts discuss division of property, procedural fairness for third parties to children and international relocation of children. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.