Family Law Review update: Vol 8 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Family Law Review includes the following material: “Less House, More Home: Adolescent and Young Adults’ Experiences of Home Following Parental Separation” – Leanne Francia and Prudence Millear; “Equity, the Free Market and Financial Agreements in Family Law: Thorne v Kennedy” – Lisa Sarmas and Belinda Fehlberg; “English Pension Sharing after Australian Divorce” – David Salter and Ellie Foster; Professional Insights: “Practical Tips from Thorne v Kennedy” – Genevieve Smit; Child Support: “The Substitution Order in Child Support Litigation” – Simon Bacon; In the High Court: “The High Court’s First Foray into Financial Agreements: Thorne v Kennedy” – Trevor McKenna; and Book Review: “Rewriting Children’s Rights Judgments” by Helen Stalford, Kathryn Hollingsworth and Stephen Gilmore (eds) – Reviewed by Richard Ingleby.
Family Law Review update: Vol 7 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Family Law Review includes the following material: “If You Want a Picture of the Future, Imagine Mandated Pre-action Procedures, Registrar Case Management and Information Sharing” – Judge Joe Harman; “Accommodating Family Law and Culture in a Diverse Society: The Injunction Power and the Jewish Experience” – Graham Segal OAM; “Certain Unions Are Not Marriages: Predicting Outcomes on Separation for Same-sex Couples Married Overseas” – Louise Cooney and Eliza Tiernan; “Family Law Property Settlements: An Exploratory Quantitative analysis” – Christopher Turnbull; Property and Financial Arrangements: “Post-separation Inheritances: Calvin v McTier [2017] FamCA 125” – Anna Parker and Amanda Pearson; The Child Support: “The Child Support Registrar Appearing Amicus Curiae” – Simon Bacon; and Recent Cases: Kent v Kent, Waterman v Waterman, Arthur v Secretary, Department of Family and Community Services, and Tuckson v Elsey.
Family Law Review update: Vol 7 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Family Law Review includes the following material: “Vexatious litigation in family law and coercive control: Ways to improve legal remedies and better protect the victims” – Emma Fitch and Patricia Easteal; “The missing heart of parenting disputes in the Australian family law system: A case for a child-inclusive approach to judicial decision-making” – Stephanie Young; “Thinking outside the Family Law Act: Concepts of fairness in England and Australia compared” – Alison Burt; Child and Parenting: “Re Kelvin: The chance for a new legal approach to hormone treatment for gender dysphoria in young people” – Felicity Bell; Child Support: “Pre-emptive declaratory orders and the enforcement of child support” – Simon Bacon; Property and Financial Arrangements: “Section 90AK of the Family Law Act: Acquisition of property on just terms” – Anna Parker and Shai Sommer; and Recent Cases: Grella v Jamieson, Britt v Britt, Maine v Maine, and Welch v Abney.
Family Law Review update: Vol 7 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Family Law Review includes the following material: “The prevalence of allegations of family violence in proceedings before the Federal Circuit Court of Australia” – Judge Joe Harman; “Another tool in their arsenal? The potential of domestic violence typologies to inform family law alternative dispute resolution processes” – Hayley Boxall and Dr Jason Payne; “The reach and efficacy of s 121 of the Family Law Act” – Sharon Rodrick and Adiva Sifris; Child Support: “Child support and the autochthonous expedient” – Simon Bacon; Property and Financial Arrangements: “Justice, equity and alteration of individual property interests” – Will Stidston and Anna Parker; Practice and Procedure: “The teetering capacity of family law litigants: The risks to mentally ill litigants when the court is unaware they lack capacity” – Bridget Cullen; In the High Court: “Parenting orders, children’s views, order in favour of ‘strangers’: Bondelmonte – Dean Foley; and Recent Cases: Lane v Nichols, Masters v Cheyne, Fewster v Drake, and Russo v Wylie.
Family Law Review update: Vol 6 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Family Law Review includes the following material: “Understanding discretionary trust structures in family law” – Grant T Riethmuller; “Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: The consideration of habitual residence in Australian courts” – Patricia Easteal AM, Joshua Favaloro and Fanny Thornton; “What happened in the Baby Gammy surrogacy case?” – Michael Nicholls QC; Children and Parenting: “State child welfare departments and federal family law matters” – Felicity Bell; Property and Financial Arrangements: “The treatment of uncertain liabilities in applications under s 79 of the Family Law Act” – Anna Parker; Family Dispute Resolution: “Pro bono mediation and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia in Brisbane: Lessons learned” – Donna Cooper; and Recent Cases: Salah v Salah; Oswald v Karrington; and Lindsey v Christie.

New Editorial Board Members bring experience and expertise to Family Law Review
The Family Law Review journal is pleased to welcome two new members to the Editorial Board. Welcome Dr Bridget Cullen Dr Bridget Cullen joins the Family Law Review in the role of Contributing Editor, focusing on the area of Practice and Procedure. In her first contribution to the journal “Forensic restraint by family lawyers – not ...more