Australian Family Law Blog

Judge Phipps set aside a s90B financial agreement in the case of Parkes v Parkes [2014] FCCA 102,  that had been made just two days before the parties’ wedding.  The husband had raised the issue of a pre-nuptial

Penn & Haughton & Anor [2013] FCCA 1941 In this case a paternal grandmother had lodged an application for the children to spend time with her.  The children’s parents were “implacably opposed to the children spending

In Whiteside & Whiteside [2014] FCCA 893 (6 May 2014) A mother relocated to Queensland with her children aged seven, six, two and eight months from NSW to Queensland for urgent medical treatment for herself.  The parents

In the case of Eades and Wrensted  [2014] FCWA 15 An application was granted to a mother to allow her to relocate from Perth to `City A’ in Thailand for 18 months with her children where her

Judge Baumann in the case of Waugh & Bannon FCCA 893 [2014] dismissed a father’s application for time to be spent with his daughter X aged 8. X had spent no time with her father before the

The full court in McCoy & Chancellor [2014] FamCAFC  62 dismissed Ms Coy’s appeal from Judge Turner’s granting of leave to Ms Chancellor under s44 (6) to apply for property orders three months out of time.   The parties

This question was put in the case of Clark and Clark & Ors [2014].  The two parties involved had regularly spent weekends at each other’s houses and travelled overseas together.  However the parties did not have a

When a marriage or de-facto relationship ends and the parties seek to have their property divided by the Family Court, the courts looks at the respective contributions made by each party during the life of the relationship. 

In the case of Willis & Field [2014] FCCA 514 (20 March 2014) the court had to decide the issue of whether equal shared care between the two parents in this instance  was in the best interests

In the case of Simmons and Anor & Kingsley [2014] FamCAFC 47 the appellants were the maternal uncle and aunt of the child X aged 8 , They had appealed the final parenting orders made by Hogan