This week on the Divorce Collective Podcast, Caralee Fontenele is chatting about what happens when you have an affair and how it affects your family law. We receive a frequent question in our initial consultations at Collective Family Law, which is: Does infidelity affect your Property [...]
Today on the Divorce Collective Podcast, Caralee Fontenele guides us through what spousal maintenance is and who is eligible. Spousal maintenance is a remedy prescribed in the Family Law Act for a former spouse to seek financial support from their ex-partner after separation. Spousal maintenance can be periodic or lump-sum [...]
When going through a divorce it is vital to protect children from the long term effects conflict can have on them. Seeing two parents' emotions toward each other drastically change can be harmful and can mentally affect the livelihood of these children.Today, Senior Associate, Dannielle Young will be following [...]
Welcome to another episode of the Divorce Collective Podcast! Choosing a lawyer can be very foreign, as it may be that you have never needed a lawyer before. It can be natural to worry about engaging a lawyer, what they will do to help you, what their [...]
The first year after separation is the toughest, devastating, distressing, and most challenging period. Part of the difficulty for most people is that you are required to face a very new reality. There are many decisions, firsts, and often conflicts all whilst you are figuring out who [...]
This week on the Divorce Collective Podcast, Senior Associate Dannielle Young breaks down the common question of what is an Independent Children's Lawyer? What is an independent children's lawyer? An Independent Children's Lawyer (“ICL”) usually and frequently pops up in relation to family matters before the Federal [...]
Today on the Divorce Collective, Senior Associate Dannielle Young and Process Server Victoria Cook guide listeners through how process serving works. In a Family Law context, the reason Process Servers would be necessary is to ensure documents are served correctly, some documents must be served personally and [...]
Here at Collective Family Law, we are a full-service law firm with many solutions to help you through your divorce and separation. Our goal for all of our clients is to get them through this period of their life as soon as possible, allowing them to [...]
Finding out your partner is having an affair quite frankly - rocks your world, your marriage, and how you feel about yourself. There is no doubt that separation becomes so much more difficult when there is an affair due to a lot of emotion and hurt which [...]
Today on the Divorce Collective Podcast, Caralee talks about the importance of being ‘Social Media Savvy’ during your separation. Many people come unstuck when it comes to social media and their family law matter. We are navigating completely different times to say ten years ago, when it comes [...]
