Wills and Estate

With the Greater Sydney COVID-19 lockdown extended for an extra week, and announcements made that schools are offering online learning for the first week back after the school holidays, you might have run out of ideas on how to best utilise this time with your children and keep them entertained.
The Kalpaxis Legal Family have collaborated together to bring you this Support Space article with our top 10 fun things to do with your children during lockdown.

Collaborative Practice involves family lawyers coming together, in a collegiate fashion, and working with each other to have your separation resolved in a manner where positive communication, effective problem-solving and a holistic approach are placed at the forefront.

Whilst a collaborative approach to Family Law is still relatively new in Australia, given the substantial cost and time benefits that it has, many (just like you!) going through this journey are interested in going down this separation pathway.

To this, many legal practitioners are now throwing the term “collaborative” around as a business strategy and acting contrary to what this term is designed to entail.

With the recent announcements of changes to the Family Court of Australia, and the ever-existent backlog of the Courts, there is an increased need for you to resolve your dispute through Alternative Dispute Resolution methods outside of Court.

When you are going through a separation from your spouse, there are two major concepts that you will probably hear about a lot: property settlement and divorce. So, what do these mean for the end of your relationship, and how should you go about each of these processes?

A common misconception about property settlement when you separate from your partner is that everything will just be split 50/50. Instead the reality is that in Australia, there is a variety of factors that  impact the division of property.