Financial Dispute
Two Melbourne apartments once owned by disgraced doctor Geoffrey Edelsten were offloaded in a fire sale this weekend, but his ex-wife has staked her claim on the properties amid their ongoing divorce battle…
A study from the Australian Institute of Family Studies has shown divorced men have higher average incomes, but lower satisfaction, than divorced women…
Self representation in a divorce case is fraught with unexpected challenges. Often, the best strategy is to avoid court altogether. ..
A man has lost his legal bid for a share of his ex-wife’s $6 million lotto win after an appeal court found the ticket was bought when the pair were leading separate lives…
Former NSW premier Nick Greiner and his wife, Kathryn, have agreed to separate after more than four decades of marriage…
Parents wanting to help children buy their first home, but who want to retain control, can buy a property in their name or that of a trust. The problem is at some point the property must be transferred into the son or daughter’s name…
Chris Soteriou says his ex-wife, Vicky Soteriou, who plotted his attempted murder – is transferring property to her family from prison to stop him from collecting any money she owes him as a result of suing Vicky for civil damages over the attack…
A recent large-scale AIFS study of post-separation property division in a decade — involving 9000 separated parents from around Australia — has found most divorcing couples manage to divide their assets themselves without lawyers…
In this case a successful businessman did everything in his power to prevent his estranged wife from residing in the former matrimonial home, even concocting a late night fire sale of the house to a mystery buyer…
This is the case of notorious solicitor Michael Ryan, who had numerous lovers, many of them prostitutes, who have all made claims on his $8m estate as his de facto lovers, with varying degrees of success. ..