INTERACTIVE LIVESTREAM
Family Law Updates 5+ CPD Unit Package
May 23rd at 8am to 1pm join Paula Gilmour, BD for Law Firms for an interactive family law livestream, with handout which includes peer to peer discussion and ongoing Q&A.
1. 8am to 9am Voice of a Child (2024)
Darren Mort, a Family Law Barrister of 33 years experience and FDRP practitioner. An actor, a film producer of “Tommy” and “Millie” nominated for 12 awards who believes “the best results for kids lie outside the Court system where too many fingers in the litigation pie lead to an outcome that may not meet a child’s best interests.”
9am to 1pm Family Law Updates
Watch or listen to Geovanna, Jammo Accredited Specialist and Principal of Evolve Family Lawyers annual Family Law updates of recent decisions in the family law on recent cases from 2021 to 2025 (see below cases involving property, parenting, spousal maintenance, child custody, maintenance, grandparents and more.
Learning outcomes:
1. Have an understanding and summary of some of the latest important family law decisions made over the last 12 months.
2. Be better placed to advise your clients on recent decisions of the courts on key issues in family law.
3. Understand the practical implications of some of these important decisions on your family law practice and your clients.
Family Law Update (2024/25) – Geovanna Jammo
Property
– Morris & Morris (No 7) [2024] FedCFamC1F 12 – Significant asset pool – non- financial contributions – husband tried to engineer a just and equitable outcom
– Boulton & Boulton [2024] FedCFamC1A 132 – Alleged double counting of family violence –correct s79 approach – no disclosure and impact of.
Parenting
– Radecki & Radecki [2024] FedCFamC1A 246 – Rice & Asplund – Full Court clarification of s65DAAA
– Pickford & Pickford [2024] FedCFamC1A 249 – Family violence – definition of coercive and controlling behaviour
Family Law Update (2023/24) – Geovanna Jammo
Property
– Jabara & Gaber [ 2021] FedCFamC1A 26 – Interim property distribution – consideration of partial distribution defeating final outcome
– Aldrin & Celona [2021] FedcFamC1A 16 – Assessment of contributions – initial contributions – holistic assessment • Parenting
– Oberlin & Infeld [2021] FamCACF 66 – Stand alone order made for the therapeutic treatment for a parent – restriction on further application to the court.
– Langley & Tarelli (No. 4) [2021] FamiCACF 107 – best interest of the child – change of residence – family violence – impact of change on the child.
Spousal maintenance
– Simpkin [2020] FamCACF 315 – Court erred in allowing husband a “financial buffer” for “vicissitudes of life” when calculating his interim spousal
maintenance obligation – Failure to consider that the order could be varied should the husband’s financial position change
– Thorpe & Stirling [2021] FedCFamC1A 86 – Spousal maintenance – Consent order (made as part of property orders) that husband pay wife’s mortgage could only be a maintenance order – ceased to have effect upon her remarriage pursuant to s 82(4) of the Family Law Act
Family Law Update (2022/23) – Geovanna Jammo
Property
– Preston & Preston [2022] FedCFamCIA 157 – Military Pensions – Income Streams – Contributions – Starting Point of Equality
– “Kennon Assessments”
– Elmanu & Elmanu [2022] FedCFamCIA 186 – Assessment of contributions
– Defective Disclosure – Error established but not material
– Loncar & Loncar [2021] FedCFamCIA 14 – Kennon Assessment
Parenting
– Isles & Nelissen (2022) FLC 94-092 – Unacceptable risk of harm – standard of
proof – Predictive Exercise
– Rose & Rose [2022] FedCFamCIF 691 – Pressure on a Self-Represented
Litigant at Dispute Resolution Conference – Consent Orders Not in Child’s
Best Interests.
Family Law Update (2021/22) – Geovanna Jammo
Property
-Jabara & Gaber [ 2021] FedCFamC1A 26 – Interim property distribution – consideration of partial distribution defeating final outcome
– Aldrin & Celona [2021] FedcFamC1A 16 – Assessment of contributions – initial contributions – holistic assessment
Parenting
– Oberlin & Infeld [2021] FamCACF 66 – Stand alone order made for the therapeutic treatment for a parent – restriction on further application to the court.
– Langley & Tarelli (No. 4) [2021] FamiCACF 107 – best interest of the child – change of residence – family violence – impact of change on the child.
Spousal maintenance
– Simpkin [2020] FamCACF 315 – Court erred in allowing husband a “financial buffer” for “vicissitudes of life” when calculating his interim spousal maintenance obligation – Failure to consider that the order could be varied should the husband’s financial position change
– Thorpe & Stirling [2021] FedCFamC1A 86 – Spousal maintenance – Consent order (made as part of property orders) that husband pay wife’s mortgage could only be a maintenance order – ceased to have effect upon her remarriage pursuant to s 82(4) of the Family Law Act
1pm to 2:30pm Facilitated by Paula Gilmour peer to peer discussion plus break out rooms available
5+ CPD unit/point Substantive Law
