by Manuela Payet | Sep 17, 2025 | Knowledge
Coercive control is a serious and often hidden form of domestic violence and family abuse that can affect anyone in various types of relationships, including intimate partners, children, parents, family members, and carers. It consists of ongoing patterns of behaviour...
by Manuela Payet | Aug 11, 2025 | Knowledge
A: To put it simply, any documents you receive by way of disclosure, Court Order or Subpoena or any other compulsory court process cannot be used for any other purpose than for the purpose intended. This obligation to the Court is due to an implied undertaking, known...
by Manuela Payet | Jun 3, 2025 | Knowledge
In most family law matters, there are only two parties to a dispute in the Family Court. They are the spouses or de facto spouses in a property dispute, and the parents of a child or children in a parenting dispute. In property proceedings, a spouse may join a third...
by Manuela Payet | Jan 30, 2025 | Knowledge
The breakdown of a relationship can be one of the most difficult times in a person’s life. Few (if anyone) enter into a relationship with the intention that it will end. It is often a period filled with significant changes, challenges and many...
by Manuela Payet | Jul 25, 2023 | Knowledge
In most cases, where a party alleges domestic violence and seeks a protection order each party will have to pay their own legal fees. But what if an application is brought with no basis? Well, as the Domestic Violence and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (Qld)...
