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Fur Babies: Who gets the pets?

In the case of relationship breakdown modern technology has saved a lot of fights – you can easily download that rare ELO bootleg and you probably don’t need to dig in over the actual CD. Seinfeld, Friends and The Simpsons are always playing on some channel somewhere so you can probably let go of the[...]

Congratulations to everyone who today is one step closer to being legally able to marry – the majority of Australians support you. And if you live in WA it’s a REALLY big step. Not just will you be allowed to get married, you will get the full legal asset protection of married couples. The thing[...]

Whatever your family situation, if you have children, they are your kids – plural. They have two parents and the law in Australia is very clear, both parents are equally entitled to a role in their children’s lives. They are not your kids – singular. If you take that line, which more and more judges[...]

Life happens – often when you can least afford it. Last week I needed a plumber to unblock a toilet. I needed one reasonably urgently. I googled “plumber, Perth”, got a list and started calling. Some told me their callout rates and hourly charge. Some said they could come in three days time, or the[...]

I went to a fantastic party on the weekend. There were nearly 200 people at my old friend’s family home. There was lots of champagne, lots of speeches and lots of love. Guests covered three generations – the party girl’s kids and her parents, her husband’s kids . . . and her first husband, his[...]

I probably hear this 50 times a week. “She got more them me!” “I did it last night!” “You get to stay up later than me!” This week it’s been on high rotation – first my daughter had to go back to school a full day ahead of her brothers, thus disrupting her Netflix Strawberry Shortcake[...]

Recently I was having coffee with a friend who’s had a pretty tough year. It’s time for her to move on and make some hard decisions. She looked at me and sighed. “I’m just not good with change,” she said. I reckon most humans out there probably feel the same. There’s nothing like a groove[...]

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