Category Archives: Family Law
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Domestic Violence – What some Perpetrators will do!
Sorry for the delay in putting up this post however on a personal note my wife and I had our house robbed at 2:30 in the morning and our car stolen. Unbelievably the police caught two people driving the car near our suburb only a couple of days later and we were able to recover [...]
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Asperger’s Syndrome – A New Approach
I feel Family Law really struggles with it’s dealing of children who have Asperger’s Syndrome. The Court process is a poor forum for the family. Courts are very restricted in what practical orders they can make for families coping with these issues. Children with Asperger’s moving between two households have unique and at times very [...]
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De facto laws being validated
As expected I have just received advice from the Law Council that legislation has been introduced today into Parliament to correct the oversight where the law about defactos was not proclaimed. I understand that it has bipartisan support so one would expect that it will be passed fairly quickly. Let’s hope they remember to proclaim [...]
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Leap – Our new computer system
I thought it would be good to let people know about our new computer system as there are some great benefits to our clients which I’d like to explain. Our firm spent a significant amount of money on changing completely our computer system as we recognised that we needed to update it. After extensive research [...]
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There is no such thing as a free lunch
A case recently caught my eye where the parties lived together for a period of 4 1/2 years and married during that time. The husband was fairly elderly and his wife was 30 years his junior. The husband was worth many millions of dollars and the wife had assets including super of approximately $1,000,000.During the [...]