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Dis­agree with a val­u­a­tion by joint­ly instruct­ed sin­gle expert? What not to do!

The Fam­i­ly Law Act 1975 (Cth) sets out the gen­er­al prin­ci­ples the Court will con­sid­er when deter­min­ing finan­cial dis­putes after sep­a­ra­tion. The gen­er­al prin­ci­ples are the same regard­less of whether the par­ties were mar­ried or in a defac­to relationship.The first ques­tion the Court needs to deter­mine in an appli­ca­tion for prop­er­ty…

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Law Soci­ety Jour­nal | Octo­ber 2019

In this inter­view Mary dis­cuss­es how she became inter­est­ed in well­be­ing, human behav­iour and psy­chol­o­gy and pro­vides insights into what law firms can do bet­ter when it comes to car­ing for their employees. …

Fam­i­ly Law | Children

The best inter­est of the child is the guid­ing prin­ci­ple under Aus­tralian Fam­i­ly Law. There is no for­mu­la as to how many days the chil­dren are to spend with each of their par­ents and the law recog­nis­es that each child and fam­i­ly is different.  Chil­dren have a right to enjoy a mean­ing­ful rela­tion­ship…

Fam­i­ly Law | Prop­er­ty settlements

Most cou­ples don’t realise that Prop­er­ty is every­thing that you own and includes the mat­ri­mo­ni­al home, invest­ment prop­er­ties, shares, super­an­nu­a­tion, bank accounts, motor vehi­cles, col­lec­tions, art­works and inter­ests in trusts and companies.There is no exhaus­tive list as to what con­sti­tutes prop­er­ty and it does not mat­ter if there is only one…

Fam­i­ly Law | Maintenance

This may be as a result of them being out of the work­force, hav­ing car­ing respon­si­bil­i­ties for chil­dren or oth­er per­sons, ill-health or not suf­fi­cient income to meet their needs. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it may also be that one of the par­ties has stopped pro­vid­ing finan­cial assis­tance and the assets of the rela­tion­ship…

Fair Work Com­mis­sion – When will the Full Bench enter­tain an appeal?

A ques­tion often asked by employ­ers fac­ing an unfair dis­missal claim is, what hap­pens if the mat­ter can­not be set­tled? Whilst the vast major­i­ty of unfair dis­missal cas­es are resolved at con­cil­i­a­tion, some pro­ceed to a hear­ing. On rare occa­sions they find their way from a hear­ing before a sin­gle Com­mis­sion­er to the…

Alert | Design­ers and Build­ing Practitioners

“Some­times the wheel turns slow­ly, but it turns” [1]It is tak­ing some time, but slow­ly and sure­ly it appears we are see­ing the rec­om­men­da­tions put for­ward in the Sher­gold Weir Report [2] being actioned.With the Sher­gold Weir Report released in Feb­ru­ary 2018 and the NSW Gov­ern­men­t’s Response to the Sher­gold Weir…

Cyber or Online Abuse Dur­ing and After Sep­a­ra­tion and Help­ful Tips

Tech­nol­o­gy facil­i­tat­ed vio­lence and abuse is a seri­ous issue. When peo­ple sep­a­rate it is not uncom­mon for a dis­grun­tled spouse to turn to social media such as Face­book to vent their unhap­pi­ness. But when does the use of social media in this man­ner become some­thing more? In this pub­li­ca­tion, we dis­cuss Cyber Abuse…

New lawyer joins our team!

Geeti is a mem­ber of Swaab’s com­mer­cial and cor­po­rate prac­tice and brings with her expe­ri­ence in fam­i­ly pro­vi­sion mat­ters; prepa­ra­tion of Wills, Pow­ers of Attor­ney and Appoint­ments of Endur­ing Guardian; and obtain­ing grants of pro­bate, let­ters of admin­is­tra­tion and sub­se­quent estate admin­is­tra­tion and management. Geeti’s focus is always for clients to achieve their…

Per­son­al Data Pro­tec­tion | Free download

We are pleased to be the con­trib­u­tor for the Aus­tralian chap­ter in this 2nd Edi­tion of ​‘A Glob­al Roadmap to Per­son­al Data Pro­tec­tion’ proud­ly put togeth­er by @Meritas Law Firms World­wide. Down­load your Com­pli­men­ta­ry copy here: https://​www​.mer​i​tas​.org/​D​a​t​a​P​r​o​t​e​c​t​i​o​n​G​u​i​d​e​.aspx…

‘Tis the Sea­son to Avoid Fol­ly: Work­place Christ­mas Parties

Last week, Jose Feli­ciano’s fes­tive sta­ple ​‘Feliz Navi­dad’ was played on the radio. Before long, neigh­bours in cer­tain sub­ur­ban streets will be com­pet­ing to see who can put up the most impres­sive (or gar­ish) Christ­mas lights, re-runs of ​‘Love Actu­al­ly’ will be broad­cast on TV with increased fre­quen­cy and Christ­mas…

Minds Count Lec­ture 2019

This year, the lec­ture was deliv­ered by David West­gate. David is a bipo­lar busi­ness­man, writer and men­tal health advo­cate and has had a long career as a high-fly­ing busi­ness­man work­ing in the field of adver­tis­ing. David decid­ed to blend his pas­sion and career to become a keynote speak­er for the Black Dog Insti­tute after…

2019 Aus­tralian Legal Sec­tor Alliances (AusLSA) Member’s Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Update

The 2019 AusLSA Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Update pro­vides an in-depth overview of the col­lab­o­ra­tive and indi­vid­ual efforts of 32 Aus­tralian legal prac­tices. This con­tributes to a more sus­tain­able legal sec­tor through their peo­ple, com­mu­ni­ty, envi­ron­men­tal and gov­er­nance ini­tia­tives. Man­ag­ing and report­ing a full range of sus­tain­abil­i­ty issues is a grow­ing fea­ture of suc­cess­ful Aus­tralian and…