Until now, Australia was the only country that required youth with gender dysphoria to seek approval from the Family Court for the second stage of hormone treatments.
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One Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson said ‘up to 21 fathers’ are taking their lives in Australia every week. Is that accurate?
Cohabiting couples can sign an agreement to avoid legal uncertainties in the case of a relationship breakdown.
Daughters across the US feel like their relationship with their father was damaged by their parents’ divorce. Here are steps daughters can take to repair that relationship.
The UK’s family court system is at breaking point.
Couples filing for divorce have an incentive to pin the blame for marriage breakdown on one person. This should stop.
Any reforms must move beyond a focus on administrative processes to acknowledge the lived experiences of child support which can be disguised by formal policy.
Separating couples who use the family law system generally have a positive experience - but for a troubled minority, there is still much work to be done.
Adding to the trauma of a relationship breaking down, families can find themselves caught in a tangle of state and commonwealth laws.
She didn’t even believe in equality, but this Victorian woman’s personal struggle against her husband became a matter of national importance.
Prenuptial agreements often leave one spouse vulnerable in the case of divorce.
A Family Court “order” for parents of a child to not smoke around him and to limit their alcohol consumption while caring for him have invited the same old accusations about the “nanny state”.
We need to support those who are subjected to family violence – mostly women and children – and this must remain our priority. But we must also intervene at the source of the problem.
It seems there is an emerging cross-party consensus on the need to change the criminal law on child neglect in this country. The most recent manifestation of this new consensus are new proposals to criminalise…
Last week’s Media Watch programme on the ABC discussed the role of the Australian media in the custody case of four Queensland children that has created headlines across the country over the past few months…
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Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Family Law, University of South Carolina
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Dean and Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Reader in Law, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Education, Wake Forest University
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Senior Lecturer in Family Law and Child Care Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Open Justice Centre, The Open University
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Professor of Socio-Legal Research and Policy, University of Sydney