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Childhood Gender Disorder

Childhood Gender Disorder   Re: Jamie [2013] FamCAFC 110 (31 July 2013) Last Updated: 2 August 2013 FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA   RE: JAMIE…
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Financial versus Non Financial Contributions in Property Settlements – Recent Case

Trask & Westlake [2015] FamCAFC 160 (14 August 2015) Last Updated: 21 September 2015 FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA TRASK & WESTLAKE [2015] FamCAFC 160…
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Child support for over 18s

Child support for over 18s If your child is about to turn 18 and is in full time secondary education, you can ask the…
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The Child Support Formula

The Child Support Formula The formula is flexible enough to take into account many different family circumstances. It provides a balanced way of working…
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Adoption

Beauty of adoption highlighted after US woman surprised with news she is an instant grandmother 9NEWS October 10, 2015: Sharon Bloomingdale missed the usual…
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Childhood gender dysphoria – the legal and ethical issues

Childhood gender dysphoria – the legal and ethical issues Gender identity disorder in children (GIDC) or gender dysphoria is a formal diagnosis used by…
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Former Brisbane solicitor is Australia’s first Indigenous senior counsel

Former Brisbane solicitor is Australia’s first Indigenous senior counsel Queensland Law Society welcomes the appointment of Australia’s first Indigenous senior counsel, Tony McAvoy SC,…
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Children ordered to live with Father instead of Mother – Parenting Orders made by Family Court of Australia

Jackman & Felton [2015] FamCA 783 (21 September 2015) Last Updated: 24 September 2015 FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA JACKMAN & FELTON [2015] FamCA 783…
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The”Our Children” website

Having trouble communicating with the other parent? Tired of receiving abusive or denigrating telephone calls, emails, Facebook messages or texts from the other parent?…
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Consequences of breaching a Domestic Violence Order

Queensland Police Service v DLA [2015] QMC 6 (7 May 2015) Last Updated: 12 May 2015 MAGISTRATES COURTS OF QUEENSLAND   CITATION: QPS v…
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Domestic Violence Application Declared to be an Abuse of Process

SGLB v PAB [2015] QMC 8 (10 June 2015) Last Updated: 18 June 2015 MAGISTRATES COURTS OF QUEENSLAND   CITATION: SGLB v. PAB [2015]…
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Domestic Violence Court Proceedings – Part 2

After the First Hearing Before the next hearing date, the court may give a timetable with steps for filing documents and other evidence. You should make…
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Domestic Violence Court Proceedings – Part 1

What is domestic violence? Domestic violence is: (a) physical or sexual abuse (b) emotional or psychological abuse (c) economic abuse (d) threatening behaviour (e)…
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Conflict of Interest

Conflict of Interest – Case Update Osferatu & Osferatu [2015] FamCAFC 177 (15 September 2015) Last Updated: 21 September 2015 FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA…
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Family Tax Benefit Part A

What sorts of things affect my Family Tax Benefit Part A? You can only receive Family Tax Benefit Part A if you care for…
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Billable Hours – Australian Lawyers’ Appeal

Billable Hours – Australian Lawyers’ Appeal The Australian Lawyers’ Billable Hours Appeal has been commenced in response to the terrible plight of refugees. Belle…
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The Independent Children’s Lawyer

What is an independent children’s lawyer? An independent children’s lawyer represents your child’s best interests and makes sure that is the focus of any…
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Domestic and Family Violence

Domestic and Family Violence – Roundtables Last month the Premier and Shannon Fentiman MP announced the Government’s commitment to leading a program of reform…
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Father’s Day

Father’s Day gains even more importance when you separate Father’s Day, like Mother’s Day, has become an even more important event after parents have separated….
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Experts in Family Law

While Freedom Law are experts in family law, we rely on other professionals to provide support and advice to our clients in other fields…
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Starter Marriage/Rebound Marriage/Blended Marriage

Social media has not only significantly contributed to the glamour of getting married, but also the competitiveness of having the bigger, better or more…
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GRANDPARENTS AND GRANDCHILDREN

We get lots of enquiries from grandparents who are not getting to see their grandchildren. This happens often when a parent (usually the grandparents…
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What is an Independent Children’s Lawyer?

An Independent Children’s Lawyer is a lawyer appointed by the family law courts. This usually occurs in cases where the court feels there is…
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Counselling in Family Law

Best practice amongst family lawyers is to recommend that clients seek counselling. This is because relationship breakdown hurts, whether you are the one who…

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