In recent years, there have been a number of high-profile cases in which financial agreements have been set aside for failing to comply with the technical requirements of the Family ...
In recent years, there have been a number of high-profile cases in which financial agreements have been set aside for failing to comply with the technical requirements of the Family Law Act.
The Family Law team has again been ranked in Doyle’s Guide Leading Family & Divorce Lawyers – Brisbane 2016, released 3 December 2015.
In family law property settlement proceedings, if a spouse is declared bankrupt, the trustee in bankruptcy may join the proceedings in an effort to recover funds from the property pool to pay the bankrupt’s creditors. While in theory this approach sounds sensible, it may not always be prudent for a
The long-standing principle that the ‘special’ contributions of an entrepreneurial spouse in creating a pool of significant wealth should be given more weight than those of the homemaker and parent spouse has recently been overturned. The effect of this change is that the breadwinner, in what family lawyers have come
Often people question whether Binding Financial Agreements are actually binding, or whether they are too easily set aside by a Court to risk relying upon.
In mid 2009, we published a Legal Alert which asked whether Financial Agreements, were “worth the paper they were written on?”. The article looked at the case of Blackmore v Webber in which the Federal Magistrates Court set aside a “pre-nup” on a number of grounds.
The recent story of baby Gammy, allegedly abandoned by an Australian couple after his birth in Thailand as a result of a commercial surrogacy arrangement, has ignited debate about the legality of international surrogacy laws and their application in Australia.
The recent Federal Circuit Court case of Parkes v Parkes [2014] FCCA 102 sheds light on this common practice
Cooper Grace Ward has again been recognised in Doyle’s Guide in the 2014 Queensland Family Law Rankings.
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has issued draft ruling TR 2013/D6 clarifying its view on the application of section 109J of the Income tax Assessment Act 1936. The views in the draft ruling conflict with some previously issued private rulings and Interpretative Decisions.
In a late night session of parliament in June 2012, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie announced the Queensland Government’s plans to introduce a Bill to drastically limit Queenslanders’ access to surrogacy to have children. The state had only legalised surrogacy in 2010.
In an era where many families have accumulated substantial wealth through generations of hard work or entrepreneurship, it is becoming increasingly common for family lawyers to be asked by clients (or their relatives) to quarantine their holdings from current spouses and new partners for the benefit of their children and
Cooper Grace Ward acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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