Family Law Forum: Surviving in the New Age
Issues covered include: The Surrogacy Act, Parental Alienation and Child Protection, Divorce, Separation, Consent Orders, Co-parenting, Parenting Arrangements, Social Media, Disclosure, Companies, trusts, partnerships, deceased estates, Family Court of Australia Federal Circuit Court merger, Family Law Act, Family Law Amendment (2018 Measures No. 1) Rules 2018.
Description
The times they are a changin’ in family law. From new developments in surrogacy to the ever increasing importance of social media in family law proceedings to ground changing shakeup of the very structure of the Family Court, it’s never been more critical to stay on top of the latest changes. Fret not, as this collection of 5 considered topics from 6 leading experts will guide you through the tumult to the success that lies beyond.
Attend and earn 4 CPD points including:
1.5 points in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
2.5 points in Competency Area 4: Substantive Law
This seminar was recorded in WA on 12 March 2019
Chair: Lucy Thomas, Director, Paterson and Dowding; Accredited Specialist in Family Law
9.00am to 9.50am: Updates and Recent Developments: The Surrogacy Act
- Altruistic vs commercial surrogacy
- Surrogacy and adoption
- Who’s the Mammy? Who’s the Daddy?
- Presumptions of parentage
- Special considerations re parentage for same sex couples
- Surrogacy statistics
Presented by Marty Kavanagh, Principal, Kavanagh Family Lawyers
9.50am to 10.40am: Parental Alienation and Child Protection
- How to advise and guide your client to the best resources
- How the courts might rule on parental alienation
- Divorce and separation through a child’s eyes: how to protect them
- Useful tools for navigating the co-parenting issues
- Parenting plans, consent orders and parenting arrangements
Presented by Rachel Oakeley, Barrister, John Toohey Chambers
10.40am to 11.25am: Social Media and the Family Law: A Recipe for Disaster!
- What is out there that family lawyers and clients are not thinking about for potential disclosure or use in litigation?
- Disclosure: How much? How do you get it into disclosure?
- Use of notices to admit
- Admissibility issues
- Unlawfully obtained evidence issues
- Fake news: Can social media be manipulated or tampered with?
- Is it really worth it? What weight should we put on what people say on social media or online?
Presented by Nicholas Rodda, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
11.25am to 11.40am Morning Tea
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
11.40am to 12.25pm: Access to Documents and Information in Family Law Proceedings
- Parenting proceedings: disclosure (rules and case law)
- Financial proceedings: disclosure (rules and case law)
- Companies, trusts, partnerships, deceased estates: how to obtain documents
- Limiting disclosure: privilege and relevance
- Third parties: disclosure and subpoenas
- Litigation tools: notices to produce, anton pillar orders
Presented by John Butler, Principal, Butlers Lawyers & Notaries
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
12.25pm to 1.15pm: Changes to the Structure of the Family Court: Reforms, Appeal Pathways and Where do we go from Here?
- Is the Family Court system failing to bring justice in a timely manner?
- An analysis of the changes following from the announced merger of the Family Court of Australia with the Federal Circuit Court
- Family Court 2.0?
- The Australian Law Commission’s review of the Family Law Act
- The Family Law Amendment (2018 Measures No. 1) Rules 2018?
- Do we really care? What it means for practitioners in Western Australia
Presented by Fraser Robertson, Barrister, John Toohey Chambers