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Family law reforms
New Family Law System - Informations Kits.
www.crimeprevention.gov.au

Lawlink NSW
Links to resouces on major aspects of family law.
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au

Family Law Council
The functions of the Council, as set out in section 115(3) of the Family Law Act.
www.ag.gov.au

Children Factsheet
Information on parental responsibility, parenting plans, who a child is to live with, s...
www.legalaid.tas.gov.au

Parliamentary Library
This site contains links to Internet resources and documents in the area of federal fam...
www.aph.gov.au



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Ken Thompson cycles Europe in desperate search for his son
Australian Ken Thompson has spent every day for three months cycling through Europe, looking for his son. But there i...
Fathers 'stereotyped' by Child Support Agency
The government watchdog responsible for overseeing child support payments has been unfairly focusing on parents who d...
Labor to increase child support
Julia Gillard will target separated fathers who do not lodge tax returns and avoid paying child support. The Prime Mi...
Strangle the weed, or mother risks losing custody of child
Mrs Cannon admitted smoking marijuana occasionally, when the child was not in her care. But the boy's father, Mr Cann...
Shared Parenting Bill presented in the House of Commons (UK)
In the UK Brian Binley, Conservative MP for Northampton South, has presented to the House of Commons a Bill on shared...
Hunt for US child moves to Victoria
AN EIGHT-YEAR international hunt for a stolen child is now focusing on Victoria. The child's desperate father has spe...
FMC gives children religious freedom of choice
A father has won the right to stop his children from taking part in Jewish coming-of-age ceremonies, after a court ag...
More families staying together as divorce rate drops
New data on the make-up of Australian families shows divorce rates are decreasing. The Australian Institute of Family...




Child Support
Ombudsman targets CSA Capacity to Pay clients
The even-handedness of Child Support Agency (CSA) investigations into whether parents are paying and receiving the ri...
Minister Bowen gets a win in the Senate
Legislation covering a range of common sense Child Support amendments passed in the Senate yesterday. From 1 July 201...
Child Support Legislation changes introduced into Parliament
The Child Support and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2010 that contains the...
Non-child-support-paying mums will be spied on like dads
Mothers who do not have custody of their children and avoid paying child support to custodian fathers will be pursued...
Further updated modelling on child support reforms
The Australian Government today released two reports that provide further analysis of the child support reforms intro...
Judgements
Adelaide Mother's bid for $278,000 monthly alimony fails
The wife, who cannot be named, applied for the money before a final settlement from her husband, whose wealth has bee...
High Court boots Full Court of the Family Court into touch
Remember the Mt Isa case. In MRR V GR in considering whether he should therefore make an order under s 65DAA(1) for t...
Federal Magistrate Henderson considers relocation to Serbia
In a detailed judgement Federal Magistrate Henderson considers relocation to Serbia. It is an interesting case to rev...
Lesbian granted access to child
A 62-YEAR-OLD lesbian has been awarded access by the Family Court to the three-year-old child of her former partner, ...
Angry mothers' groups tell one-side stories about relocations
The Family Court has ruled that new shared-parenting laws, that commenced in 2006, mean that the right of a child to ...



Courts
AG announces new appointments to the Family Court
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, today announced the appointment of Judge Ann Ainslie-Wallace, Ms Margaret Cleary...
Federal Magistrate Janet Terry is a winner
Federal Magistrate Janet has only recently been appointed to the court and has quickly gained a reputation as an agil...
Service through FaceBook allowed
In a case which highlights the difficulties of keeping a low profile when you have a Facebook account, a court has or...
Melinda Stratton sticks it up Court - Kidnaps Child
Melinda Stratton is a woman on the run. In April last year, she fled Australia with her four-year-old son, Andrew, so...
DCJ Faulks between a rock and a hard place
He was three years old when his parents first went to court, unable to agree about what was in his best interests. Th...


Press Releases
Green-Labor Senate to end Shared Parenting & revise Marriage
Information to hand suggests that Australian separated and divorced fathers will soon have to prove that their childr...
Assistance to Relationship Counselling welcomed
Catholic Social Services Australia today welcomed a Coalition announcement that an Abbott Government would provide ne...
Same Sex Couples Bill for adoptees (NSW)
FamilyVoice Australia have raised attention to the Sydney Independent MP Clover Moore who introduced a bill to change...
Support for Australia's many Stepfamilies (FED)
National Stepfamily Awareness Day (Sunday 25 July) is a chance for step and blended families to celebrate their succe...
No Way to Live report
Minister for Women, Jodi McKay, today launched the No Way to Live report at NSW Parliament House. The report by senio...



Most Popular Articles

Sir Bob Geldof

Sir Bob Geldof
Geldof's most recent high-profile crusade is to highlight the anti-father prejudice of the family courts. When he and Paula Yates originally split he lost custody of the children, and even though he fought successfully (at great expense) to get them back, his shock and disgust with the system rages on.
  Men & Fathers' Health Forum

Men & Fathers' Health Forum
Wednesday 19th March 2008 will go down as a milestone event in the men & fathers’ movement in Australia. This was the day when almost 30 key leaders, representing men’s, fatherhood and family groups, academics and health professionals, met in Federal Parliament to discuss forward motion on the Labor Party’s proposed National Men’s Health Policy.


It's My Divorce Too

My Divorce Too
For the children, divorce can be a minefield of parental absences, new homes, new rules – and even new family members. Here, kids who have been through the "big bang" talk about how the separation affected their lives.
 

DEPRESSION : Untying the knot

Peter's parents broke up. His mum got custody, and got depressed, dad got mad and got out and Peter, as you could guess, got both mad and depressed and got the tummy aches that wore his inner pain. Later on dad and his new partner asked to have Peter for the holidays. Many solicitor bills later it happened, it worked well and Peter asked his mum if he could stay.


   
   
   
   
   
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