When separating, untangling your money or responsibilities from your ex-partner can be quite messy.

It is quite common for parents to lend significant amounts of money to their adult children to help with buying their first home.

Paula Phelan is a Family Lawyer with Specialist Accreditation in this area from the Queensland Law Society. She has been a lawyer for 24...

As separation is hard enough, you do not want to add more to your plate by making some common mistakes that could have been easily avoided.

If you remain in the property, its reasonable that you would like to maintain your privacy and stop your ex-partner from accessing the prope

If you win a lottery or casket during the course of a relationship do you have to adjust or share the winnings with your spouse if you later

A relationship breakdown is difficult and uncertain as it is without a global pandemic going on in the background.

In the 2017 Family Law case of Calvin & McTier, the parties were married for 8 years between 2002 and 2010. In 2014, 4 years after the p

While many things can feel out of your control, there are practical steps you can take to ease the confusion and secure your future during t

So what happens if there are no children and you break up before the 2 year period? What if you feel that you have contributed in some way t

For the purposes of a family law property settlement, super is considered to be property and can be transferred between spouses’ funds as pa

A recent case in the High Court of Australia has confirmed that pursuant to the Family Law Act, the court has the power to assign the taxati

The court will look at a number of circumstances to determine whether a de facto situation is in place, including the intermingling of your

A separation occurs when one of the parties ends the relationship. Often, they will communicate their intention to leave and other times wil

It may be that 2 or 3 years have passed since you separated. The pool to be divided will include any new assets that either of you have acqu

This duty of disclosure can extend to and include information and documents that the other party knows nothing about. As long as the materi

If you are going through a relationship breakdown, you need to be aware that your former partner may be able to claim an interest in your su

There have been cases where one party has been shown to have gambled assets recklessly or entered into commercially inept arrangements where

The party receiving the inheritance often believes that they should retain all of it in accordance with the wishes of the deceased. The othe

If you are able to come to an agreement about how to divide the property, it is important to remember that “hand shake agreements” are not r