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A Guardianship case in the Supreme Court last October found that a financial manager could be replaced for reasons other than incompetence or impropriety if it was in the best interests of the protected person. In M v M [2013] 1495, the Supreme Court...

We are not the first legal firm to apply “Lean” (or Lean Six Sigma as it is described in the USA) as part of our management system but we may be one of the first in Australia. But don't expect Lean to become popular in the legal profession. The idea...

In Kane v Kane, the Family Court ignored the often-used “special contribution” principal in property settlements. This meant that the husband’s decision to invest the couple's superannuation in a certain way, which led to considerable gains, was...

In light of the recent high profile murder case involving Simon Gittany *, we thought it was timely to look at the definition of violence in the Family Law Act and how the Court deals with issues of domestic violence. When we hear the phrase family...

In Australia, married parties must settle their property interests prior to the 12-month anniversary of their divorce. They can be settled by way of a consent order or Binding Financial Agreement, and where an agreement cannot be reached, an application...

It is a common occurrence that one party to a marriage or relationship makes a significantly higher financial contribution either prior or during the relationship. Many people are often under a mistaken belief that in a relatively short relationship, a...

The Streeterlaw Fraud Department had a surge of extortion/blackmail cases in 2013. One of these cases involved a victim receiving threats from an anonymous source, whereby private and intimate information was to be “withheld” by an anonymous...