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NSW Government releases Domestic Violence App
A new smart phone app has been launched for people who are experiencing domestic and family violence. The application...
Review of Australias national Paid Parental Leave scheme
The Government has announced a review of Australia's national Paid Parental Leave scheme introduced on 1 January 2011...
Minister Macklin announces changes to Newstart
Minster Macklin suggests that unfortunately we have far too many children growing up in families where nobody is work...
There's got to be something more than this! say men
Bernard Carroll has spent more than 30 years travelling around rural Australia talking to groups of men about their h...
Mothers who deny fathers access to the couples children after a b...
Childrens minister Tim Loughton will announce that the Government is to rewrite the 1989 Children Act, which states t...
Opposition Grows to British Governments Parenting Proposal (UK)
In England, the anti-father forces are gathering for their fight against paternal involvement in childrens lives.  Th...
WA court counsellors sticking fathers with false allegations
In what appears to be a disturbing pattern of judicial abuse of process and propriety, Family Court counselling is fa...
Feuding couples to pay for dispute resolution (NZ)
Feuding couples will have to pay $900 if they want state support for resolving their disputes as the Government aims ...




Child Support
Cost of raising a child to 18 is now $1 million
Generation Z, born since 1995, are the most financially endowed generation of children ever. Every child has their ow...
Cost of raising a child
The cost of raising a first child to the age of 18 in Hobart is just over a quarter of a million dollars, or $268,629...
Age eligibility for Family Tax Benefit Part A has changed
As of 1 January 2013, there is a change to the age of eligibility for FTB Part A. It will no longer be paid for young...
Child support formula baffles 90% of parents - AIFS study
Most of the 1.5 million divorced and separated parents who pay or receive child support have no idea how the calculat...
Child support payments secured by new investigation unit
Employers who fail to pass on child support payments which they deduct from their employees wages, are the target of ...
Judgements
Justice Garry Watts makes a difficult order
A TEENAGER has been ordered by the Family Court to live with her father in a religious community. A judge in Sydney h...
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, ...



Courts
Defendants To Front Up In Court Study (NZ)
Minister for Courts Chester Borrows this week launched a pilot scheme that will place some defendants at the centre o...
Gotcha tapes disliked by court
Family court lawyers have observed a trend among litigants to secretly record themselves in conversation with their p...
Lawyers say Family Court reforms pose risk to vulnerable (NZ)
The Family Court Proceedings Reform Bill passed its first reading in Parliament on 4 December. The bill would encoura...
Father must withdraw criminal charges - Girls ordered back to Italy
A Family Court judge has ordered four sisters involved in an international custody dispute be returned to Italy "as s...
New name for Federal Magistrates Court revealed.
The Federal Magistrates Court will soon become the Federal Circuit Court of Australia, and the title of Federal Magis...


Press Releases
De Facto property laws pass parliament
The Family Law Amendment (Validation of Certain Orders and Other Measures) Act 2012 has been passed by the Parliament...
Labor Greens Creating a Fatherless Society
Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation press release: Never before in the history of the Parliament have major changes to Fa...
Last chance to write a submission !
If the Bill passes, separating parents will no longer have to to facilitate, and encourage, a close and continuing re...
Violence reforms families can trust! ... to
The Attorney General said today that the Family Violence Bill retains the substance of the shared parenting laws and ...
Family Law Amendment (Family Violence) Bill 2010 - Media Release
The proposed amendments to the Family Law Act are a source of deep concern and dismay to our members and to the many ...



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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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