The Full Court of the Family Court of Australia recently dismissed an appeal on the basis that the appellant female was in a de facto relationship with a male, contrary to the female’s opinion and belief. In Cuan & Kostelac [2017] FamCAFC 188 (12 September...
The High Court has delivered its much-awaited Judgement in the case of Thorne and Kennedy, a case involving a ‘pre-nuptial’, and subsequently a ‘post-nuptial’, Financial Agreement, the Court being asked to determine whether either were binding. The first instance decision of the Trial Judge in the Federal Circuit Court proceedings...
In Stott & Holger and Anor [2017] FamCAFC 152 (7 August 2017), a maternal grandmother appealed a father’s right to spend unsupervised time with her grandchild. On appeal, it was held that the father posed an unacceptable risk towards the 10 year old child, on the basis of his...
news.com.au - January 15th 2018 A GOLD Coast woman and her elderly mum walked into lawyer Marie Fedorov’s office. Alarm bells immediately started ringing. GOLD Coast lawyer Marie Fedorov “smelled a rat” when an elderly woman came into her office with her adult daughter to change her will. The daughter...
Towards the end of 2017, the QLD legal profession started to feel the effects of online hackers making their way into the online files of firms and manipulating the transfer of funds. The ability for these people to access and immerse themselves into client matters is terribly confronting...