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

Family Law Section
Representing family lawyers throughout Australia.
www.familylawsection.org.au

Family Court
General information about the Family Law Act and the creation of the Family Court of Au...
www.familycourt.gov.au

Dads in Distress
A dedicated support group of men whose immediate concern is to stem the present trend o...
www.dadsindistress.asn.au

Law Institute of Victoria
This area of the website can give you an overview of some of the things to consider.
www.liv.asn.au



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Family law unable to back mum on new life
A child's right to a meaningful relationship with his or her father trumps a woman's right to pursue personal happine...
Mother fights to stop daughter calling her stepmother 'mum'
An Adelaide mother went to court to prevent her daughter from referring to her ex-husband's new wife as "Mum" or "Mum...
 Attempt to block 'Mummy D' fails
Professor Patrick Parkinson, a family law expert from the University of Sydney, said it was the first such case he ha...
Secret web of sorrow when parents move on
A world-first study of 80 parents involved in relocation disputes shows online dating is having a devastating impact ...
Families SA a sorry saga of failing families
The Hon Ann Bressington MLC launches a petition against the wrongful and forced removal of children from natural or e...
Australian Mother charged with murder of sons
Australian mother Allyson McConnell has been charged with murdering her two young sons after their bodies were found ...
No 50-50 split on time with parents - Whisler & Whisler
The Family Court has clarified what it means by "shared care" for children after divorce, and it isn't a 50-50 time s...
NSW Ombudsman must wonder how they get away with it !
Sarah who looked well and vibrant in July 2004, began to deteriorate when her regular treatments with Dr. Tyler stopp...




Child Support
$1b in deadbeat parents debt
The child support debt has grown by 12.8 per cent despite a 20 per cent increase in child support agency staff and a ...
New Deputy Secretary of Child Support and Planning
Philippa Godwin has been appointed Deputy Secretary of Child Support and Planning, Department of Human Services. This...
CSA plans online or over the phone payments from November
Parents will soon be able to pay their child support online or over the phone. From November 2009, parents residing i...
Updated modelling on child support reforms report
On 14 August the Australian Government released updated analysis of the third stage of the child support reforms intr...
Kiwis in for major overhaul of Child Support system
While parents know that raising children is a costly business, they may be surprised to find out that new estimates p...
Judgements
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 ...
Child ordered to return to the United States
A mother has unsuccessfully appealed against an order which required the return of a child to the United States pursu...



Courts
Sex abuse accused father fights back
A DAD cleared of claims he sexually abused his kids is now hitting back at his ex wife. The man is accusing his ex-wi...
Push to criminalise parental abductions
The Family Law Reform Association of New South Wales is calling on the Federal Government to make it a crime for a pa...
Courts leash net-love mums
The explosion in popularity of internet dating has caused a new crisis among estranged fathers, MRA, a national men's...
Victorias lawyers being sued in landmark test case
A senior human rights lawyer has joined the backlash of criticism of Victoria's lawyers and judges including recent d...
Girl whose life got lost in red tape
The mother is in jail for life for her murder, her father is serving up to 16 years for manslaughter. One card is wri...


Press Releases
Attorney General releases key reports that confirm shared parenta...
The Attorney General has today released three major reports into the operation and effectiveness of the Family Law Ac...
New campaign to help abused men launched on International Men's Day
At least 1 in 3 victims of family violence is male. 435,000 Australian men have experienced violence from a current o...
Compensating for agency error
The Commonwealth Ombudsman, Professor John McMillan, today called for improvements to the delivery of an Australian G...
NSW Government caught lying to shore up women DV figures
The NSW Government has confirmed making substantial errors in its current Discussion paper on NSW Domestic and Family...
AG speaks to Albury-Wodonga Family Pathways network event
The Attorney General says that the Government is working with the States and Territories to develop a comprehensive a...



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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