Family Law - Key Issues in Financial Matters

Unpack the essential issues you need to tackle in family law financial and property matters.  All the difficult issues examined: handling non-disclosure, understanding the FCFCOA rules, and knowing when and how to bring an application in proceedings. Learn what to do when debts exceed assets and what key factors to consider in forum disputes, including the differences between parenting and financial matters. Gain insight into managing complex estate issues that may arise in your family law case.

Wednesday, 12 March 2025
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Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories

12.15pm to 1.15pm The Marriage of Deceased Estates and Family Law

 

  • Separation, divorce, marriage: and their impact on wills and superannuation
  • Death before, during and after family law proceedings   

Presented by Andrew Meiliunas, Associate Director, Nevett Ford Lawyers

Chair

Claire O’Connor SC, Villeneuve Smith Chambers

9.00am to 10.00am Dealing with Non-Disclosure: When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

 

  • The FCFCOA Rules and obligations to make full and frank disclosure
  • Applications in a Proceeding
  • Subpoenas
  • Specific Questions, Notices to Produce and Notices to Admit
  • Chang & Su: principals and subsequent authorities

Presented by Bronia Tulloch, Barrister, Foley’s List

10.00am to 11.00am When the Debt is Greater Than the Assets: Negative Asset Pool

 

  • Avoiding the iceberg: survival strategies when all seems lost
  • Practical steps in dealing with banks and other creditors
  • Keeping the ATO onside during the crash crunch
  • Advantages and disadvantages if the other party becomes insolvent or bankrupt

Presented by Stephen Page, Director, Page Provan; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Recommended Family & Divorce Lawyer and Recommended Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2023

11.00am to 11.15am Break
11.15am to 12.15pm Here or There? Forum Disputes in Family Law Matters

 

  • Factors to be examined when there is a forum dispute
  • Parenting vs. financial matters - does it make a difference?
  • Practical tips: what to do when there are different options as to jurisdictions

Presented by Eleanor Lau, Partner, Lander & Rogers; Accredited Specialist in Family Law; Recommended Family Law & Divorce Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2024

Presenters


Eleanor Lau, Partner, Lander & Rogers
Eleanor is an Accredited Family Law Specialist who practises exclusively in Family & Relationship Law. Eleanor has assisted clients in all areas of family law including property settlement, spousal maintenance, parenting matters, child support, financial agreements and matters involving international issues. Eleanor is well-versed in advising clients across the spectrum of family law issues with particular expertise on financial matters involving complex structures such as trusts, companies and partnerships, including where assets are held both within Australia and overseas. Eleanor is also experienced in complex parenting matters, particularly in cases where an overseas element is involved. Eleanor is a member of the NSW Law Society Specialist Accreditation Family Law Advisory Committee, a member of LawAsia, and a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL). She has been recognised in the Doyle's Guide as a Leading Family & Divorce Lawyer. Eleanor is one of only a small number of Cantonese and Mandarin speaking family lawyers in NSW whom have attained specialist accreditation in Family Law.


Claire O’Connor SC, Villeneuve Smith Chambers
Claire O'Connor SC is a barrister practising in criminal, family and civil work, (predominantly personal injuries, inquiries and inquests) Aside from the usual practice of car accidents, murders, rapes and family disputes over children, assets and pets, those areas entail she is also well known for her refugee and detention centre work acting for the plaintiff in Al Kateb v Secretary dept. of Immigration in the High Court, for Cornelia Rau in relation to the Palmer Inquiry into her unlawful detention (and her subsequent rescue from Jordan where Ms Rau was detained under their mental health provisions), and in the inquest into the sinking of the SIEV 221 off the coast of Christmas Island in 2010 where she appeared for the survivors and families of the deceased. She worked on many Aboriginal justice issues including the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission, at Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement as an in-house counsel, and juniored Julian Burnside AO QC into first and so far only successful stolen generation case of Trevorrow v The State of South Australia. Claire has also acted for many asbestos victims in litigation against employers and suppliers of asbestos in particular in the successful test case in this State of Parker v BHP. She has developed a keen interest in gender equity issues in the last few years in particular and is the Law Society of SA representative on the Law Council gender committee, a member of the SA Bar Women at the Bar committee and a member of the Law Society's own gender equity working group. She was on the establishment committee some 20 years ago for the women's legal service and served for many years on its management committee. Her legal employment experience has been in private practice, the community sector and in the government sector in SA and the UK before, in 2005, she went to the bar. She was appointed a senior counsel in 2014.


Bronia Tulloch, Barrister, Foley’s List
Bronia was admitted to practice in 1996 and joined the Bar in 1998. Bronia’s areas of experience include residence and contact, contravention proceedings, child support, property (including de facto relationships), child and spousal maintenance, intervention orders, enforcement proceedings and costs disputes. She has a particular interest in relocation cases, financial matters which involve family businesses and appeals. She appears regularly in Federal Circuit Court, the Family Court and the Full Court sitting in Melbourne, on circuit and interstate. Bronia is also available for paperwork and advice in all areas of family law, including the preparation of written submissions and Notices of Appeal. Bronia is frequently briefed as a mediator and on behalf of a party in mediations and settlement negotiations.


Stephen Page, Director, Page Provan
Stephen Page is a director of Page Provan, Brisbane. Stephen was admitted as a solicitor in 1987 and has been a Queensland Law Society family law accredited specialist since 1996. He has spoken extensively about family law, domestic violence and fertility law at local, national and international conferences. Stephen is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (including co-chair of the Sexuality and Gender Identity Committee) and of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, and is an international representative on the ART Committee of the American Bar Association. He has received a number of awards, including the Queensland Law Society President’s Medal (2023). Stephen has written many legal articles. He is the author of two books: When Not If: Surrogacy for Australians (2022) and International Assisted Reproductive Technology (2024). Stephen is a member of several committees. He is the Secretary of the Fertility Society of Australia and New Zealand.


Andrew Meiliunas, Associate Director, Nevett Ford Lawyers

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