Three reports evaluating aspects of Australia’s family law system have been released by the Attorney-General, Robert McClelland. ..

The most comprehensive evaluation of Australia’s family law system – drawing on the experience of 28,000 Australians – has found that overall the recent reforms are working well for the majority of children and their parents. ..

The number of Canberra children who have been removed from abusive or neglectful parents is increasing, a new report says…

Mr B said he was accused in court of being “a bad husband, a bad father” and he believes that were it not for the Howard government’s shared parenting laws, which require the Family Court to presume that a child’s best interests are served by having a “meaningful” relationship with both parents after separation, he would not have been given any responsibility for his son, let alone equal time…

A MAN who discovered in a custody hearing he was not his son’s biological father has made legal history…