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Drawing a long bow – Gillard and cohabitation

July 1, 2010 – 9:14 am

Bettina Arndt wrote a piece in the SMH the other day which Paul Norton at LP has described as a “Bondi cigar“, and I must say I’m inclined to agree with Paul’s assessment. Jason Soon alerted me to the piece in the first place, and I must say I’ve stolen his heading for my post [...]

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Mummies and Daddies

March 8, 2010 – 11:47 am

I was interested to read today that a woman has failed in her legal bid to stop her former partner from encouraging their six-year-old daughter to call his new partner “Mummy D”. Unfortunately the judgment doesn’t seem to be available online yet. [The mother] said encouraging the term of endearment was ”an incendiary action” by [...]

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O Mistress Mine!

November 9, 2009 – 8:05 pm

I was fascinated to see that the first case under the new s 4AA of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) has been settled out of court. According to the recent article in the Herald Sun: A cheating husband has paid his former lover more than $100,000 under Australia’s new “mistress laws”. In the first [...]

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Right to a child versus rights of a child

March 6, 2009 – 6:10 am

Over at Saint’s place, Saint and I have become involved in a discussion about legally sanctioned relationships and children. A commenter at Saint’s site, Paul, raised the recent example of a US case where a couple wanted to use their dead son’s sperm to get a grandchild: The New York state appeals panel issued a [...]

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Law of unintended consequences…

March 1, 2009 – 3:28 pm

Laws designed to allow same-sex and de facto couples to access the Family Court on an equal basis to married heterosexual couples may have unintended consequences, it seems. The amendment inserted a new definition of “de facto relationship” in s 4AA of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth): Meaning of de facto relationship (1) A person [...]

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