Author: Nadia MacLeod

Grant Hackett received more unwanted media attention with reports he was suing his solicitors for preparing a defective Financial Agreement. Hackett’s lawyers prepared a Financial Agreement (often referred to as a pre-nup) prior to his marriage to Candice Alley.  The agreement was later amended during his wife’s pregnancy with their twins. According to this SMH […]

Over the last few weeks we’ve been eploring a common separation and property settlement myth – the 50/50 split. Many people believe that the property pool must be divided in a 50/50 split regardless of any personal circumstances. This just isn’t true, and while there are no hard and fast rules the Family Law Act […]

A couple of weeks ago we started to debunk a common separation myth – the 50/50 property split. Many people believe that the property pool must be divided in a 50/50 split regardless of any personal circumstances. This just isn’t true, and while there are no hard and fast rules the Family Law Act does […]

In our last post we started to debunk a common separation myth – the 50/50 property split. Many people believe that the property pool must be divided in a 50/50 split regardless of any personal circumstances. This just isn’t true, and while there are no hard and fast rules, the Family Law Act does set […]

There are a lot of myths surrounding de facto separation and divorce in Australia. One is that assets are split 50/50 between the parties. The fact is, there is no set percentage split ratio that separating couples should use when dividing the assets and liabilities after a relationship breakdown.  Each situation is unique and based […]

In the past, some of our customers have experienced a frustrating technicality when making a binding financial agreement if they were living together in a de facto relationship, but planning on getting married at some point in the future. You can make a Financial Agreements under the de facto provisions of the Act or the […]