People experiencing health problems face a hard enough battle. When these come coupled with legal issues, it can be particularly difficult for patients to know where to look for support. In these circumstances, free legal advice can provide huge relief for many. Nicholes Family Lawyers are therefore...
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RECENT CASE: Can Family Violence Adjust Property Settlements in Family Law? Keating & Keating
Whilst conduct is not generally relevant to property law settlements within family law, in certain instances, serious violent conduct may be viewed as impacting upon a party’s ability to contribute to the relationship or otherwise make contributions more arduous than they ought to have been. T...
Read moreAccess to Justice and the Online World
On Thursday 21 March 2019 Nicholes Family Lawyers, in conjunction with Victoria Women Lawyers hosted a seminar discussing the impact of online world on ‘justice’. The seminar explored the various ways in which the emergence of technology and the online world has impacted on individuals’ abilit...
Read moreAdvance Australia Fair: How Australia Fares When it Comes to Women’s Equality
Recently celebrated universally, International Women’s Day has a proud history. It has occurred for well over a century, the first 1911 celebration being in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, then spreading to the US and the UK. The first Australian rally took place in 1928. The good...
Read moreChristmas and Family Violence
Christmas is a time of rejoicing, of gift-giving, of great food and drink; a family time. But there is a dark side to Christmas – shamefully, it is also a time when there is a huge increase in family violence. Just in Victoria, it is anticipated that there will be an additional fifty r...
Read moreVictoria Police – Response to Family Violence
On Monday 19 November 2018 the Victorian Family Law Pathways Network held a forum on the recent changes made within the Victoria Police in response to the ongoing issue of Family Violence in Victoria. In the year ending June 2018, a total of 76,124 family violence incidents were reported by Victoria...
Read moreSafe Steps Advice in Identifying and Responding to Family Violence
Safe Steps is Victoria’s 24/7 Family Violence Response Centre, assisting women and children experiencing family violence though their phone line and specialist support services. In the 2017-2018 financial year they received 104,189 calls – unsurprising considering 1 in 4 Australian women are aff...
Read moreImportant Step Forward With National IVO Recognition
A National initiative to tackle Family Violence Family Violence Intervention Orders (IVOs) are used to protect people from Family Violence. An IVO is made in favour of the Affected Family Member / Protected Person (“AFM”) and is made against the Respondent. IVOs can contain various conditions, i...
Read moreFamily Violence and the LGBTI Community
The Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic) (“the Act”) defines ‘family violence’ as behaviour by a person towards a family member of that person that is physically or sexually abusive, emotionally or psychologically abusive, economically abusive, threatening or coercive, or in any other w...
Read moreAmendments to the Family Law Act regarding Family Violence
On Monday 17 July 2017, Attorney-General George Brandis released draft amendments to the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) in relation to family violence. The amendments seek to prevent alleged perpetrators of family violence from cross examining their alleged victims in Court. Alleged family violence perpe...
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Have the COVID-19 restrictions affected or changed your ability, or another party’s ability, to follow Court Orders? You…
The Family Court has specialised Registrars available to assess matters affected by COVID-19. If you are impacted by cur…
The new Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia will commence on 1 September 2021. The Courts have today released…