Cases about lottery winnings often draw attention perhaps in
part due to the large sums of money that can be involved but also because they
require some very particular and detailed attention to be paid to how parties
in a dispute have organised their lives during their relationship, before and
after the win.
In a recent case, known as Elford and Elford (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FamCAFC/2016/45.html), a Wife appealed orders that
provided for her to, by and large, not receive the benefit of a lotto win that
happened very early in...
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Thursday, 19 May 2016
How do you divide property when a relationship breaks down? Consider the family law four step!
It is with regularity that family lawyers are buttonholed at
social events to provide some impromptu advice to someone going through a
property division.
What is consistent through these conversations is how little
many people understand of the process, how much people cobble together their
own solutions based on what is ‘fair’, and how infrequently lawyers are
consulted at an early stage to provide some guidance and frameworks for
discussions between parties.
I can recall a matter that was brought to me where the
parties...
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