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Family Law
Co-ordinator: Dr Adiva Sifris
This cluster covers research connected to 'families' in the broadest sense. Members of the cluster have research interests that include:
- Parenting orders, variation of orders and best interests of the child
- Formal and informal residence arrangements for children of separated families in Australia, in the light of the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006
- The effect of new "equal time" provisions in the Family Law Act
- Children in immigration detention
- Lesbian parenting
- Property and children aspect of domestic relationships
- Child support and maintenance
- Spousal maintenance
- Indigenous family law and the way that the mainstream legal systems of colonial countries have accommodated indigenous family structures and law
- “Customary adoption” in New Zealand, Australia and Canada
- Processes of family law dispute resolution
- The role and practices of the legal profession in family law disputes
- Legal ethics in family legal practice
- The role of Family Relationship Centres
- The “shadow” of family law
- The relevance of domestic violence in family law related decision making and Family Court proceedings, including how family violence will be treated under new Act
- Different family violence legislation at federal and state levels
- The relevance of child abuse in family law proceedings, including how child abuse will be treated under new Act
- The relevance of gender in family law decision making (especially for women)
- Sex workers and family law.
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