Bill
Family Law Amendment (Financial Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2015
lapsed, as at 2016-05-09. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-11-25
- second reading — 2015-11-25
- other — 2016-04-17
- other — 2016-05-02
- other — 2016-05-09
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-11-25.
The bill would make it easier for separating couples to sort out their finances without going to court.
It would clarify the rules for making, interpreting and enforcing financial agreements between spouses or de facto partners.
The bill would also strengthen court protections for victims of family violence and improve the handling of international child abduction cases.
- Remove uncertainties about how financial agreements are entered, interpreted and enforced.
- Change the scope of spousal maintenance covered by agreements.
- Add a statement of principles explaining the binding nature of agreements.
- Reinforce that financial agreements are binding to give parties certainty.
- Strengthen protections against family violence in certain court procedures.
- Make minor and technical amendments, such as clarifying definitions and deleting out-of-date provisions.
Separating couples, victims of family violence, and parties to international parental child abduction cases.
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