Szabo & Associates News & Updates

Background

The process of separation and divorce is very difficult. There may be children to consider and financial issues on top of the emotional strain.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently published the results of the 2016 Census, and the figures have given an interesting insight into the status of relationships in Australia.

A recently published report from the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recommended a series of law reforms to provide greater protection from elder abuse.

A new approach to domestic and family violence is being rolled out across NSW that involves giving doctors greater powers to help victims.

Australia’s High Court has ruled in the case of two brothers of divorced parents, deciding that they do not have the right to choose which parent they live with. After a separation in 2010, living arrangements were made which were in the best interests of all parties. Problems arose, however, when the father took the boys on holiday to the United States in January 2016, and later informed the mother of his intention to remain there, indefinitely, with the boys. A judge ordered the boys’ immediate return to Australia, and an appeal made to the High Court by the father to overturn this ruling was rejected.