Gabrielle Canny
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283 appearances
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first heard Feb 2022
last heard Feb 2022
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If we talk about people who have a little bit more complex arrangements, perhaps the relationship's been longer, there may be children.
And if there is perhaps assets worth fighting over, people can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a property settlement using lawyers, often sort of standing up for what they think are their rights, what they think is their proper share,
Whereas in fact, they're never going to get that amount in the court.
You need a bit of reality testing and that's where information really helps.
So there have been some very expensive divorces in Australia and people have spent over a million dollars on a property settlement.
But what you know is that's what the lawyers cost.
It's not what happened after you divided the money.
And so for someone perhaps who has average assets but fought tooth and nail in relation to those assets,
They could spend all their equity that they were going to get in their hands on lawyers fighting for them.
I'm not being critical of lawyers because lawyers are doing their job because they act on instructions.
You know, the client might say, I'm not settling for that.
I want the whole lot.
You know, I want 100% or whatever.
And the lawyer can say, look, I don't think you'll get that at court, but we'll see how we go.
But if you get good information, it's a bit like a reality test, then you'll know what is fair and what, if you can't agree with it, a court might give you
That's right.
And sort of thinking back, sort of harking back to when the sort of family law was established, there was fault in divorce and so there was this concept that one party had done the wrong thing
and therefore they shouldn't benefit from the sort of the separation.
But of course, that went out years and years and years ago.
The court is actually not interested in whose fault the breakup is, who perhaps went off with somebody else or who sort of was behaving badly.
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