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There are two ways to record the parenting agreement between separated parents. The first is a parenting plan; the second is a consent order. What is a parenting plan? This is a document that records an informal agreement between parents about matters...

Court annexed mediation, (rather than private mediation or a trial) can be used to successfully address and resolve a great variety of adversarial disputes, including complex matters. When two parties have intractable differences, with conflicting...

The recent defamation case of Hockey v Fairfax Media, handed down by Justice White in the Federal Court on 30 June, has implications for a number of Streeterlaw’s corporate clients, particularly those who are subject to frequent media and social media...

While the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court (the Family Courts) have the job of ruling on disputes concerning property and children, they should be viewed only as a last resort for the vast majority of separating couples. One Federal Circuit...

The Supreme Court of NSW delivered a significant decision in April 2015 regarding the ability of financial managers of protected estates to obtain remuneration out of the estate, in addition to the costs involved in applying for the remuneration. The...

The division of property at the end of a relationship is often emotional but when some of that property is from one party’s inheritance, it can become particularly contentious. The law applying to the division of inherited property is not clear cut....

Binding Child Support Agreements are becoming a more popular option as separating parents seek to make arrangements for the financial support of their children outside of any assessment from the Child Support Agency (CSA). The idea of these agreements...