Family

• Media Reporting of Family Cases – The Debate Heats Up!

  • Posted18 November 2015

  The increasing ability of the media to report family proceedings has given rise to judicial differences of opinion in respect of the difficult balance to be struck between individual privacy...

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• Unexpected Death Justifies Divorce Settlement Change

  • Posted10 November 2015

  One of the things that the family court seeks to do when divorce settlements are being made is to achieve finality. Where a settlement has been agreed by the court,...

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• Family Judge Blocks Mother and Child’s Move to Australia

  • Posted26 October 2015

  The importance of the role of fathers in the lives of their children has been given more and more recognition by the family courts in recent years, as is evidenced...

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• Court Rejects Divorce Settlement Revision

  • Posted15 October 2015

  When a couple divorced in 2010, the broad terms of their financial settlement were agreed very quickly with some details finalised in 2014. The agreement included the passing of the...

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• Divorce – Courts Should Not Tolerate Inaccurate Disclosure of Wealth

  • Posted14 October 2015

  When the wives of two very wealthy men found that their divorce settlements had been concluded on the basis of information supplied by their husbands which was clearly wrong, a...

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• Judicial Mistake in DIY Divorce Settlement Rapidly Corrected

  • Posted6 October 2015

  When a husband and wife split up, they amicably decided that maintenance would be paid by the husband to the wife for five years and agreed between themselves the main...

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