Tag: aged care and cognitive decline

What Happens If One Party Goes into Aged Care? [caption id="attachment_16637" align="alignright" width="300"] Family Law in Later Life Relationships[/caption] The High Court decision in the case of Fairbairn v Radecki [2022] HCA 18, is relevant in considering how a settlement might occur if one party were to enter aged care. The facts of Fairbairn v Radecki are as follows: The female appellant and male responded were in a later-in-life relationship commencing in 2010 in the state of New South Wales;...