28 May 2015
The 68-year-old adopted son of former premier Neville Wran is taking his stepmother to court seeking a larger slice of the late Labor giant's multi-million dollar estate.
17 May 2015
Divorce is not an experience any of us wish for. No one enters into a long term relationship genuinely considering what might happen if it came to an end. Thanks to endless romance novels, fairy tales and Hollywood blockbusters we learn early in life that marriage is ‘forever’.
27 April 2015
Regarding the wellbeing of kids with divorced parents, the debate over what kind of custody arrangement is best rages on. But a new study, published Monday in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, suggests that children fare better when they spend time living with both of their parents.
24 April 2015
There are more than 50,000 divorces each year in Australia. It's an emotional and disruptive time for both men and women and separating spouses can make poor decisions because they aren't thinking clearly. Women are at a high risk of losing out financially in a divorce, but this doesn't have to be the case.
23 March 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey announced the forced sale of the $39 million Point Piper mansion Villa del Mare, purchased by one of China's richest men in November, because it was sold in contravention to the existing foreign ownership laws.
08 February 2015
Parenting is full of joys and challenges. Sometimes there is more joy than challenge and then there are those days when there seem to be only challenges to face with little joy. This is the case whether you are parenting together or apart. For parents who find themselves navigating the end of their relationship there can be some new and very significant challenges to face. While you may not have agreed on everything while you were together, chances are you found a way through. But now that you have separated it can seem like you are parenting from seemingly different worlds.
25 January 2015
Almost this time last year Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin hit the front pages of the news with their wacky idea that they were ‘consciously uncoupling’. They were not ‘getting a divorce’ instead they had made a conscious decision to bring their marriage to an end in a positive way. In fact they had untangled their marriage well before we were even aware of it.
10 August 2014
Altruistic surrogacy is the only kind permitted in Australia but it doesn’t always end with everyone happy.
01 August 2014
Weighing up the decision to stay as a family unit or to separate…
21 July 2014