Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on QLD legislation
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
How Family Cases are Reshaping Parenting and Property Disputes
- Recent amendments and case law on add-backs and why courts are limiting notional property adjustments
- The codification of family and domestic violence and how courts are interpreting its impact on settlements
- How recent decisions are applying or reframing Rice v Asplund under the updated legislative framework
Presented by Yolanda Battisson, Special Counsel, Murdoch Lawyers; Recommended Family Lawyer in Doyle’s Guide 2023
Chair
Allison Caputo, Head Of Family Law And Dispute Resolution, Michael Lynch Family Lawyers; Family Law Accredited Specialist, Accredited Mediator
Presenters
Yolanda Battisson, Special Counsel, Murdoch LawyersYolanda was initially admitted as a solicitor in Queensland in 2001 after having completed a two-year articles of clerkship with Murdoch Lawyers, and was admitted to the High Court of Australia in 2002. She’s been working as a solicitor for almost 25 years and exclusively as a family relationships lawyer for over 18 years of that time. Given her many years of experience in the family law space, she understands the stresses brought on by separation and is committed to assisting people pragmatically and with empathy. She has a particular passion for working with people to help them understand and move through the legal aspects of their separation to set them on a path toward a new start. More specifically, she assists people with complex parenting and financial matters during and after a separation. She frequently assist parents to implement arrangements that enable them to effectively care for their child/children after a separation. She also works with people to finalise their financial separation and this often involves working with high-net worth matrimonial pools and complex company and trust structures.
Allison Caputo, Head Of Family Law And Dispute Resolution, Michael Lynch Family Lawyers
Allison Caputo is Head of Family Law and Dispute Resolution at Michael Lynch Family Lawyers. Allison is an Accredited Specialist in Family Law and an Accredited Mediator. Having practiced exclusively in family law since her admission in 2006, Allison has over 20 years experience working in both private practice as a solicitor, with Women’s Legal Service as Practice Director and more recently was appointed to the role of Judicial Registrar in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. Allison returned to private practice in 2024 to build a mediation practice with Michael Lynch Family Lawyers. Allison heads up a team of very skilled family lawyers and balances her client work with running mediations for colleagues in other private firms.
