Presently Western Australia de facto couples are the only couples in Australia who are unable to divide superannuation following the breakdown of a relationship. This is due to the Western Australian state government not referring their powers to the Commonwealth to legislate over non-married couples. This leaves some Western Australians...

On 15 November 2017 Australia learnt the result of the same-sex marriage postal survey – a resounding YES!  The federal parliament didn’t take much time in passing legislation, which came into effect on 9 December 2017. The first same-sex marriage to take place in Australia happened soon after on 15...

I can almost hear your eyeballs roll – Christmas already??   It is important to ensure that things are in place early for separated parents.  If you don’t have arrangements in place for your kids for Christmas, and want the Family Court of WA to make a determination about who...

Where the Family Court makes an Order that parents have equal shared parental responsibility for a child, the Family Law Act/Family Court Act directs that the Court must consider that each parent should spend equal or substantial and significant time with the child. Equal shared parental responsibility is the ability...

Over 46,000 divorces were registered in Australia in 2016, and of those almost 50% of the separating couples had children under the age of 18. Government statistics show that in 2012-2013 only 31% of children spent time with the parent they didn’t live with on a weekly basis. That means...