Relationship breakups dealing with the assets of high net-worth couples have been under discussion in the media. Managing Partner of […]...
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World Congress on Family Law & Children’s Rights – ‘Courts and COVID-19: Operating in a Pandemic and What we Learned’
COVID-19 has “thrust adaptive changes upon the legal profession”and has prompted a “transition from the traditional way of practice”, observed […]...
Read moreReturn Applications under the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Convention): Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
Where a child has been abducted or illegally detained in another country, recourse can often be made to the Hague […]...
Read moreThe World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights
The World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights exists to enhance, promote and protect the human rights of children […]...
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With many Victorians re-entering lockdown, the myriad challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic have just become much harder. Nicholes Family Lawyers […]...
Read moreThe Right to Intervene by a Left Behind Parent: Coma & Coma [2020] FamCAFC 99
The recent case of Coma & Coma [2020] FamCAFC 99 (‘Coma & Coma’) considered the issue of whether a Father, […]...
Read moreConversion of Family Reunification Orders and Care by Secretary Orders according to the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
Hidden away in the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (the Act), being the legislation which binds the operation of […]...
Read moreProperty Settlements: Assets being held overseas in a divorce or separation
For litigants involved in property proceedings in the Family Court, it can come as a shock to discover that parties […]...
Read more‘It’s a matter of trust’ – Goldsmith & Stinson and Ors [2019] FamCAFC 230 (2 December 2019) Case Note
In Goldsmith & Stinson and Ors [2019] FamCAFC 230, the wife sought declaratory relief pursuant to s78 of the Family […]...
Read moreFamily Violence in a Digital Age
Family violence can be perpetrated online and from an entirely different country and jurisdiction, which presents challenges in protecting individuals. […]...
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