Bill
Family Law Amendment Bill 2024
passed, as at 2024-12-10. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-08-22
- second reading — 2024-08-22
- other — 2024-09-10
- second reading — 2024-09-10
- second reading — 2024-09-10
- committee — 2024-09-10
- other — 2024-09-11
- third reading — 2024-09-11
- introduced — 2024-09-11
- second reading — 2024-09-11
- second reading — 2024-11-28
- third reading — 2024-11-28
- other — 2024-11-29
- passed — 2024-11-29
- royal assent — 2024-12-10
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-08-22.
This bill would make clarifying changes to the Family Law Amendment Bill 2024 to improve how it works.
It would adjust property and spousal maintenance rules to resolve relationship breakdowns more safely and fairly.
A measure on divorce attendance would start six months after Royal Assent, matching the timing for removing the two-year marriage counselling requirement.
- Clarifies that economic consequences of family violence are relevant to de facto maintenance and superannuation decisions.
- Broadens the definition of 'protected confidence' to cover a wider range of therapeutic communications.
- Removes the requirement for couples married two years or less to seek court leave or file a counselling certificate before divorce.
- Gives the minister power to approve transition factors for superannuation splitting calculations.
- Removes separation declaration requirements for superannuation splitting when the member's interest exceeds the low rate cap.
- Changes the start date for the divorce attendance measure to six months after Royal Assent.
Separating couples, family law courts, and parties to family law proceedings in Australia.
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