Australian Family Property Law

Australia's family law system: a user-centred perspective

“…Second, financial disadvantage has an adverse impact on both adult and child wellbeing (Warren 2017), underlining the public interest in ensuring adequate financial support for children. This point underpins a recent argument by Fehlberg and Sarmas (2018) for the recognition of children's needs in post separation property division through the inclusion of a legislative requirement to address the 'reasonable housing needs of children' (p 105).…”

“…The evidence base on separated families in Australia is well developed in some areas and requires further in development in others. As a result of the Australian government's significant investment in research since 2006, multiple quantitative surveys have examined parenting arrangements (Kaspiew et al 2009;Qu et al 2014;Kaspiew et al 2015); but there is only one quantitative data set that examines post-separation property and this is based on a parent sample (Qu et al 2014). Consequently, evidence is lacking on the experiences of people who are not parents or who have grown-up children.…”

Family dispute resolution and access to justice in Australia

“…Family disputes have various aspects to them, including interaction between parties, property, financial and so on (Fehlberg et al ., 2014). The how of management and/or resolution of these disputes matters, and this relates to process.…”