Resolving family law matters can be challenging and stressful at the best of times, but right now it is especially hard due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Here is some information and updates about how the Coronavirus is impacting family law matters and what this may mean for you…

Judges who travel to regional areas to hear family law disputes are handling up to 70 matters a week and sitting until as late as 8pm to get through their caseloads…

FAMILY law matters in indigenous communities will be heard outside courtrooms and a team established to help Aborigines under a plan being considered by the Federal Circuit Court…

The family law courts are chasing more than $1.4 million in unpaid fees amid criticism that increases introduced by the federal government in January are putting pressure on families…

This Act makes amendments to the administrative structures and processes of the Federal Court of Australia, the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia…

A FRUSTRATED magistrate has declared the hatred of two parents engaged in a war over the schooling of their daughter so “insidious” it would constitute a “weapon of mass destruction” if bottled…

THE federal government is about to face moves in the Senate for an inquiry into whether its fee increases for the federal courts will reduce access to justice…

A COURT-ordered expert asked to report on the future of three children at the centre of a custody battle has been thrown off the case after his wife got involved in what was none of her business…

Amendments to the Family Law Act that changed the way the law addresses family violence in family law matters came into force from 7 June 2012…

Financial planners and accountants need to know how their clients’ relationship status is seen in the eyes of the law, according to lawyer Nabil Wahhab, or things like super splitting after a break-up can get very complicated…