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   Settlement of family law issues after separation deals with the most basic and raw emotions. Putting one’s life and that of your family into documents and letters is a process that can make a person feel empty and emotional. Divorce Property Settlement Brisbane and Child Custody are often at the front of mind for those facing separation or divorce. Collaborative practice is one way in which separated parties can resolve issues quite quickly. The first meeting can be a little uneasy but once the process is explained to everyone and being able to talk things out and express your points of view with your collaborative practitioner makes the process much easier. Collaborative practice allows parties to talk without just being a person on a page of a document. Professionals such as counselors and accountants can also be included who can assist in working through issues and help reach a resolution. In a collaborative practice meeting if you feel you are unable or uneasy...

    SEPARATION, DIVORCE AND FINANCIAL PLANNING: What You Need To Know My financial advisers in their recent newsletter provided advice to their clients in regard to a separation in their relationship. The financial adviser wrote, “It is an unfortunate fact of life that couples will separate and even divorce.  The financial adviser went on to say that their advisers have dealt with these difficult issues and have become sensitive to the requirements of a separating couple. The advice given in the newsletter was, “If you and your partner have decided to separate your first course of action is to contact a solicitor who can take you through the legal process of separating your assets.  Assets include the family home, any investment properties, cash in the bank, managed funds, your superannuation, home contents, cars, etc.”  While the division of all these assets has to be determined by the Family Law Courts your adviser can help you with the following.  T...

   Getting a divorce is tough enough in so many ways, but it’s made infinitely harder when children are involved. How do you announce to the kids that Mum and Dad are splitting up? No matter what age the children are, there’s no easy way of telling the children, but here are a few tips to make the process a little easier. #1 – Do It Together In some circumstances maybe this isn’t a likely possibility, but making the announcement with both parents present at least helps relieve some confusion and doubt. The difficult part is being able to break the news without bickering with each other in the process if getting a divorce is less than amicable. #2 – Choose the Right Time You want to pick a time when everyone is present. It can be hard enough explaining this once, let alone multiple times over. You also want to make sure it’s a time when both you and your ex-partner are calm and as relaxed as possible . After all, you want to keep this as stress-free for the kids as can make it...

  Lawyers see a  40% increase Divorce Rate in Australia has been constant for years – but this year it is on the move. Corona divorces have been causing a rush to court since this summer; delays are to be expected. It is no secret to anyone that a considerable percentage of marriages end in divorce Qld. But really,  how many marriages end in divorce? Below we publish the rate of divorces according to official data from the last 10 years, and we compare them with other countries. In our country, in the last decade, the average age at which  men marry for the first time has been 35 years, in the case of women, the average age is already 33 . Regarding the number of marriages, in Australia, the average for the last decade is about 165,000 marriages a year. Do you want to know how many of them fail?  Let’s see why they fail and what percentage of divorces there is in Australia. According to the latest data published in Australia in 2020, there were 97,960 divorces ....

    It has long been the case that fault or behaviour on the part of either person is not relevant to the granting of a Divorce in Australia.   There is one ground for the grant of a divorce which is that a marriage has irretrievably broken down   and the only evidence in support of that is that the parties have lived separately for at least 12 months prior to the application for divorce is made. With regards to the basis for a property settlement,  the conduct of either spouse is very unlikely to be relevant.  (We often get asked if this is the case, and in the majority of situations, conduct is simply not a relevant factor). Whilst the development of Australian law owes much too English law in this respect, there is a difference between the position in Australia and that in England and Wales.  At the time of writing this article (July 2018), a case is proceeding to be heard in the High Court in England   and Wales  in which the wife is...