Family law: November 2024
Cases discussing discrete hearings, what constitutes a de facto relationship, and financial agreements before marriage. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Cases discussing discrete hearings, what constitutes a de facto relationship, and financial agreements before marriage. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Cases on reasonable supervision orders, what makes an outcome better than a settlement and the Harman obligation. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Third-party disclosure, delay exceptions, child support assessments and confidential material in family violence defences. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Wills and estates practitioners have new rules and precedent to follow with a new Supreme Court Practice Note and an influential decision in Alexakis.
Appeals for procedural orders, apprehended bias, ICL orders and section 60CC of the Family Law Act 1975. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Carolina Soto, barrister, will be presenting a session on coercive control as a criminal offence on day one of the Specialist Accreditation Conference 2024.
The rules around self-dealing can complicate seemingly simple sales to executors of an estate: solicitors have a crucial role to play at all stages.
Unreliable evidence, medical certificates, property adjustment and an eye-watering asset pool. 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.
Despite fresh case law and legislative reform, international obligations still govern overseas jurisdictional issues.
The latest decisions discussing judicial bias, ultra vires parenting orders, denial of procedural fairness and financial agreements. By CRAIG NICOL and KELEIGH ROBINSON.
Gift or loan? Families can be litigious when they fall out but good practice at the outset can keep it out of court.