Each party and their respective lawyers contractually commit (through a Collaborative Law Contract) not to revert to litigation and to reach the best available outcome for post separation families without court proceedings.

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The Federal Government has recently introduced Phase 2 of the outlined three phase amendments to the Child Support Regime. The amendments are likely to have a significant impact on a person's right to 'depart' from or otherwise alter the Child Support Agencies Administrative Assessment of Child Support.

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The recent case of Stephens & Stephens and Ors [2007] FamCA 680 is once again an example of the court looking 'behind the veil' of an entity when determining the precise nature of the assets, liabilities and financial resources of the parties.  This case is quite extraordinary in that the Orders made had quite an impact on the trusts of the children of the marriage, but despite this, dispositions to the children’s trust were reversed and the capital of those trusts brought to account.

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