The Family Court of Australia, in the 2019-20 Annual Report, stated that 22 per cent of litigants were involved in matters where one or both parties did not have legal representation at some point ...

The Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System sat on Monday, to review the government’s bid to reform the family court system. One Nation senator Pauline Hanson claimed she had ...

The Australian Labour government Monday released a draft of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 to amend the Family Law Act 1975.In a statement, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the reforms seek to ...

Since the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) (then known as the Federal Magistrates Court of ...

In hundreds of cases every year, Australia's family courts hear allegations of violence and child abuse and when it comes to investigating them, experts say "we have a huge problem".

Family law judges are buckling under crippling workloads, and ever-increasing wait times are putting the nation's most vulnerable women and children at risk, a Senate inquiry into Australia's ...

Australia's family law courts will be investigated in a parliamentary inquiry, but violence survivors want an expert overhaul instead. Scott Morrison says an inquiry into the family law court ...

The special bond between owners and pets has been recognised in family law changes, with dogs and cats defined as companion animals and not just property.

The Courts’ see nearly all of Australia’s family law cases, including disputes related to children and property/finances, and issues related to family violence and child abuse.

Secret plan to de-merge family law. Opposition legal affairs spokeswoman Michaelia Cash has accused Labor of secretly moving to de-merge the Family and Federal Circuit courts.

Not every family law court case involves family violence, but we need to face the reality that many do. The commission sets out some of the stark facts in its report. 60 per cent of separated parents ...