The Court presumes it is in the best interests of a child for their parents to have equal shared parental responsibility as a default position. This means that parents are required to consult each other and agree on any long term decisions affecting the children...
Child Support can be obtained through an assessment from the Child Support Agency, through an informal agreement between parents, through a Binding Child Support Agreement or through a Limited Child Support Agreement. Child support is separate from spousal...
Recently, director and actor Olivia Wilde was handed an envelope while on stage when she was attending a trade show in the United States of America. As it turned out, the envelope apparently contained Court documents from her ex-partner regarding a parenting matter....
Pre-nups, more formally called Binding Financial Agreements (“BFAs”) or sometimes called FBAs, are legal documents in Australia made under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) which are designed to exclude the operation of some or all of the family law. That is, you and your...
