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Conversations from the coalface of the family law system in Australia. For more see www.mediationanswers.com.au
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Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Through the Inside Family Law podcast I hope to demystify family law, bring conversations with leading minds in family law to listeners in an accessible way and spark discussion across all the different stakeholders in the family law process.
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Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
In this interview with Amy Jenkins (partner and national head of family law at newly merged firm Russell Kennedy Aitken) we discuss and evaluate the proposed reforms in the ALRC report, including, the following proposals:
- for presumption of equal contributions during the relationship.
- presumption that superannuation accumulated during the relationship should be equally divided.
- relevant date to ascertain the value of assets to be changed to the date of separation.
- personal costs orders against lawyers.
- requirement for compulsory mediation prior to filing Court proceedings in not just parenting but also property matters.
- returning family law matters to the States.
- Arbitration in parenting matters, and family violence.
- Amy also discussed her own views about the need for greater consistency in Court, and also:
- Family violence and how proceedings can in some situations be used by perpetrators to perpetuate control.
- Self represented litigants.
- Costs.
Saturday Apr 13, 2019
Saturday Apr 13, 2019
In this podcast I pick the brains of leading clinical psychologist and family report writer Vincent Papaleo. This is a MUST LISTEN to for parents who are separating and also lawyers (and lawyers please have your clients listen to this!) Topics include:
- how to best support children through a separation.
- Cases where children are not seeing a parents (i.e. 'alienation', estrangement and rejected parent cases).
- How endemic conflict affects children and also how it impacts them when they become adults.
- family therapy in family law (reportable or unreportable?)
- High conflict personalities.
- Children’s best interests vs parents obsessive pursuit of “fairness."
- Intercultural families.
- Attachment theory.
- ALRC proposed reforms and Arbitration in parenting matters.
- Thoughts for how family lawyers and clinical psychologists can better work together in family law matters
Saturday Apr 13, 2019
Saturday Apr 13, 2019
In this discussion with Rebecca Chapman, head lawyer from International Social Services Australia (ISSA) discusses:
- International mediation.
- Assistance to parents whose children have been removed overseas including the Hague Convention.
- Issues of family violence and the Hague convention
- Questions around if removing a child overseas be criminalised
- Changes in child abduction matters as we become a more global world.
Saturday Apr 13, 2019
Saturday Apr 13, 2019
Tahlia Bleier discusses the ground breaking case of Masson & Parsons and Anor [2018] FamCA 823 (18 September 2018) with the appeal to the High Court of Australia being heard on Tuesday 16 April. Very much family law at the frontier, Tahlia and I discuss
- The background facts and history of the proceedings
- The wider consequences for families of this case, depending on how the High Court decides it.
- What can we learn from all of this in terms of practical steps that can be taken before a child is born when a known sperm donor is involved to ensure there is greater clarity for all parties
- What is the nexus between biology and parenthood
- How children's perceptions are given weight
- How the “reality” of modern family structures may not be able to be properly captured with our current legislation.
- The tension between flexibility and clarity in the law.