Author: Family Lawyer
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Registered Marital Status
An individual’s current status in regard to a registered marriage, i.e. whether he or she is widowed, divorced, separated, married or never married. The partners in a registered marriage must be of the opposite sex as under Australian law same-sex relationships can not be registered….
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Relevant Child
A child of the marriage under 16 at the time of the decree nisi or between 16 and 18 if in full-time education or training for a trade, profession or vocation. (A disabled and dependant child can be of any age)….
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Property Adjustment Order
An order that one spouse should transfer property to the other (e.g. the matrimonial home or other assets)….
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Premarital Agreement
A Premarital Agreement (also referred to as a Prenuptial Agreement) is a formal written agreement entered into by a couple before marriage. Its purpose is to record the parties’ intentions as to the division of assets in the event that the marriage breaks down. The courts are not obliged to […]
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Progeny Price
See bride price….
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Post Partum Sex Taboo
A prohibition against a husband and wife having sexual intercourse for a specified period of time following the birth of a child….
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Periodical Payments
Another term for maintenance which can be paid weekly, monthly or annually….
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Pension Sharing
The division of a pension fund between two spouses as part of a financial settlement….
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Parent With Care
A term in the Child Support Act 1991 to mean the parent with whom the child has his or her home and who usually provides day to day care for that child….
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Other Family
A family of related individuals residing in the same household. These individuals do not form a couple or parent-child relationship with any other person in the household and are not attached to a couple or one-parent family in the household. For example, a household consisting of a brother and […]
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Non-Molestation Order
An order to prohibit one person using or threatening violence, intimidating, harassing or pestering another….
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One-Parent Family
A family consisting of a lone parent with at least one dependent or non-dependent child (regardless of age) who is also usually resident in the household. The family may also include any number of other dependent children, non-dependent children and other related individuals. (see also Couple […]
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Parallel Cousin
One’s father’s brother’s children or mother’s sister’s children. The gender of the children is not relevant in making this distinction. With matrilineal or patrilineal descent, parallel cousins are members of the same lineage. See cross cousin. diagram of a patrilineal […]
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Never Married
A person who has never been a partner in a registered marriage….
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Natolocal Residence
The residence pattern in which a bride and groom remain in their own separate family’s households or compounds after their marriage rather than occupy a residence together. The children born of this union usually stay in their mother’s home, which becomes a de facto matricentric residence….