As a child I loved watching Robin Williams’, Mrs Doubtfire. As an adult, I am appreciating the movie in a different light especially the advice Mrs Doubtfire gives to Katie McCormick distilled into a 1:55 golden nugget for the ages. Katie had written to Mrs Doubtfire saying: Dear Mrs Doubtfire Two months ago my mum […]
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Going through separation in parenting matters will involve discussions around child support. One option is to have Services Australia (accessible online via the MyGov website) do all the calculations, collections and payments for you. Services Australia use a formula that is based on many factors but most importantly include the following; The total number of
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The 2006 movie the Break-up starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn was a box office success though it was ‘lacking in laughs’ as one critic put it. Part of the reason for its success seems to be the subject matter which touched a sore spot for a lot of people considering divorce. For many people,
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They say the difference between whether money paid was a loan or a gift would depend on who you were asking – the giver or the receiver It should not come as a surprise that a lot of parents who would happily gift their child and his/her new spouse a monetary amount at the start
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While the courts have now made mediation in parenting matters compulsory in most cases, a lot of judges are asking litigants in property cases to consider settlements as well. Family law settlements tend to be emotional and fraught with tension. As such the best advice that I always give my clients is that when attending
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The courts are currently so bogged down with cases that the judges are pushing people to try and attempt settlement outside of the court system. In fact, section 60i of the Family Law Act specifies that parents can not start an application for parenting unless they had first attempted to negotiate an agreement through mediation. If mediation
It seems that we still can’t get enough of all the ‘post baby bodies’. I’m into fashion and beauty as much as the next person but in the last couple of weeks it seemed that no matter which channel I tuned into, there was Kim Kardashian showing her post baby non-existent bump. Which in turn lead to
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Have you ever loved your partner so much you wanted to adopt them? Polo magnate, John Goodman who is facing a civil trial in the US over the death of a 23-year-old in a hit and run accident, did just that. A judge previously ruled that a trust Mr Goodman had set up for his
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I am not alone when thinking of things in twos. Holden v Ford Pepsi v Coke Optus v Telstra Two teams in a match, two peas in a pod, two birds with one stone. Two parties in a court case. Except – this last phrase is not always the case. There are two ways a
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