Tag: Alteration of property interests

Partial Property Distribution [caption id="attachment_15981" align="alignright" width="350"] Partial Property Distribution[/caption] Sections 79 and 80(1)(h) of the Family Law Act confer power on the Court to make orders for an interim property settlement including for litigation. Funding The relevant legal principles that apply are as follows: (1) Section 79 confers a discrete power to make orders for property settlement and the Court may exercise that power through a succession of orders until the power is exhausted or until a final order...

The Kennon Principle- Kennon & Kennon [1997] FamCA 27; (1997) FLC 92-757 (“Kennon”). Violent Conduct & The Effect On Property Issues. [caption id="attachment_13897" align="alignright" width="350"] Violent Conduct & The Effect On Property Issues[/caption] Where there is a course of violent conduct by one party towards the other during the marriage which is demonstrated to have had a significant adverse impact upon that party’s contributions to the marriage, or, put the other way, to have made his or her contributions significantly more arduous than they ought to...