A practical guide to the day-to-day practice of family law in Australia. PRACTISING FAMILY LAW offers step-by-step guidance on the full range of essential skills, including the taking of instruction, drafting, case preparation and presentation, advocacy and negotiation. In each case these skills are presented within the context of family law. The authors also consider skills pertinent to the family law context such as interviewing emotional clients and clients of a non-English speaking background. This book is an ideal resource for law students, solicitors, and those with a particular interest in this area. Important Features: Authors are recognised experts in the field, Questions, answers, case studies and forms support a practical approach, Self contained chapters are easily utilised for those who need specific information quickly

Authoritative guidance on the law and practice relating to family law financial agreements.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Provides a concise summary of the key cases in family law. Duncan Holmes is an acredited specialist in family law and partner in Slade Manwaring, Sydney.

Annotated by Richard Chisholm, Suzanne Christie and Julie Kearney, this work provides essential, practical and portable access to all the necessary Family Court legislation. The work provides detailed annotations to the Family Law Act (Cth) and the Family Law Rules 2004 (Cth) and the Federal Circuit Court Rules 2001 (Cth). The material is extracted from the four-volume looseleaf service, Australian Family Law (LexisNexis).

Australian Family Law: The Contemporary Context 2nd Edition encourages critical thinking and a wide understanding of contemporary Australian family law. Description and analysis of the law is set in a broad context that includes policy debates surrounding the law and the family as well as discussion of relevant empirical and research literature. Recent years have seen a burgeoning of empirical research relevant to family law and policy, and this research enables the authors to convey a rich sense of the law in action, social norms (both attitudes and behaviors), and the contexts of the field. This second edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect the latest changes in family law. It continues to take a thematic approach, and its use of interdisciplinary materials presents the substantive law in a highly contextualized way. This new edition includes a separate chapter on financial disputes, and expanded coverage of parenting and property disputes.