Someone did actually have a more expensive divorce than Rupert Murdoch, well one person anyway, if this article from BillionaireAustralia.com is to be believed. We supsect it is not a scientific sample! http://www.billionairesaustralia.com/expensive-divorces-history/
History’s most expensive divorces
The abuse of domestic violence orders
Augusto Zimmermann, Chair in Legal Theory and Constitutional Law, Murdoch University School of Law & Law Reform Commissioner discusses abuses of domestic violence orders. He outlines some cases in which the orders can be misused. False accusations can be made…
Sharia law / Family law
From Muslimvillage.com. Sheikh Haisam Farache comments on new procedures to incorporate cultural sensitivity into consent orders by the Family Court. He is a family lawyer and university lecturer who has been doing mediations under Sharia law informally. He is excited about…
Courses for Greek grandparents experiencing family conflict
New rights are designed to preserve the continuity of relationship with their grandchildren even though the parents are getting divorced. The rules allow grandparents the right to mediation, even when parents are being hostile, in recognition of the value of grandparent…
Finding way to love your kids more than you hate your ex.
An article about the helpful trend towords preservating mutual interest in parenting through divorce. A new pragmatism has accepted the inevitability of divorce. “Treat each other as business partners” is the advice of the founder of a new family transition clinic….
Australian legal aid services ‘need $200 million more a year’ – Productivity Commission
The productivity commission has said the Abbott Government should add $200 million a year to legal assistance services around Australia and reverse cuts to indigenous legal services to meet widespread legal need. Jane Lee, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that “Its…
Australian courts’ $1 million a year paper problem
Storage and retrieval of Family Court documents will become less costly and faster, if Deputy Chief Justice John Faulks has his way. He said the cost of storing such documents is about $1 million a year. He and his chief information…
Being bigger and wiser can benefit us all
CHARLOTTE THAARUP-OWEN writes an opinion piece in the Newcastle Herald, taking as its inspiration the family law change in Australia in 2006. As part of the change parents were no longer allowed to project their dislike of the other parent onto their children…
Call for Federal Circuit Court Judge to be based at Dubbo
With waiting times for Family court matters ballooning out to over 13 months in Dubbo, Orana Law Society president Andrew Boog has called for a Federal Circuit Court judge to be based at Dubbo, reports the Daily Liberal. The Attorney General’s department,…
Former Australian PM Gough Whitlam dies at 98
This BBC new article and video profile of the former Prime Minster provides an interesting perspective on a truly visionary Australian leader. The Family Law Act of 1975 introduced no fault divorce to Australia, and remains the structuring legislative scheme…