How Are Financial Settlements Agreed During A Divorce?
When it comes to getting a divorce, other than deciding upon what is in the best interests of the children, the next most important matter is the financial settlement. The first thing to understand...
View ArticleWhat Are The Requirements For Getting A Divorce?
First, you can get divorced without a lawyer representing you by creating your own divorce application. As for the grounds for divorce, Australian family law has one remarkably simple principle and...
View ArticleYour Rights If Your De Facto Relationship Breaks Up?
One area of family law in which there can often be a degree of confusion, and where family lawyers are often asked for advice, is de facto relationships. That confusion ranges from someone not knowing...
View ArticleWhat You Can Do If Your Ex-Partner Refuses To Let You See The Children?
Unfortunately, one of the most contentious aspects of divorce in which family lawyers are invariably asked by their clients to advise them on, is access and visitation of children. We say unfortunate,...
View ArticleAt What Age Can a Child Choose Who to Live With after Divorce?
It is a sad fact of life that unless there is abuse, the children suffer most after a divorce. No matter what the parents feel about each other, the children they raised together up to this point still...
View ArticleWhat Is The Bail Application Process?
If a person is charged with an offence they may need to apply for bail. Bail is the process by which someone who has been arrested or charged with a crime, is released from custody. A person who is...
View ArticleCommon Assault – Section 313 – Criminal Code
s 313 – Common Assault Any person who unlawfully assaults another is guilty of a simple offence and is liable – if the offence is committed in circumstances of aggravation, to imprisonment for 3 years...
View ArticleDistributing Child Exploitation Material – Section s 219 – Criminal Code
s 219 – Distributing Child Exploitation Material In this section – Distribute child exploitation material, includes – Communicate, exhibit, sell, send, supply, offer or transmit child exploitation...
View ArticleWhat if My Ex Partner Takes the Kids and Won’t Let Me See Them?
When someone goes through a nasty divorce it occasionally happens that one partner takes the children and won’t allow the other to see them at all. Unless there is violence involved, this is not legal....
View ArticleProducing Child Exploitation Material – Section s 218 – Criminal Code
s 218 – Producing Child Exploitation Material A person who produces child exploitation material is guilty of a crime and is liable to imprisonment for 10 years. Elements of the Offence In order to be...
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