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Failure Family Law Reform Australia - by John Stapleton (Paperback)

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  • The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Family Law Act, the single most intrusive and destructive piece of legislation to ever pass the Australian parliament.In that time the Family Court has been the subject of dozens of government inquiries and attempts at reform on its road to becoming a cash cow for lawyers and the single most hated jurisdiction in the country.Far from the caring, helpful court promoting joint custody and cooperation after separation, as its founders envisaged, the Family Court rapidly became a law unto itself, imposing sole custody on separating families despite all the documented harm of this style of custody order, while denying non-custodial parents contact with their children on the flimsiest of excuses.Overly legalistic, enormously bureaucratic, secretive, and unaccountable, defying public norms of decency and probity, the ideologically driven Family Court and its so-called evil sister the Child Support Agency have remained remarkably resistant to reform and indifferent to the public odium they attract.Successive governments from both left and right have failed to listen to their constituents and respond to their concerns.
  • Author(s): John Stapleton
  • 598 Pages
  • Family + Relationships, Parenting

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The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Family Law Act, the single most intrusive and destructive piece of legislation to ever pass the Australian parliament.

In that time the Family Court has been the subject of dozens of government inquiries and attempts at reform on its road to becoming a cash cow for lawyers and the single most hated jurisdiction in the country.

Far from the caring, helpful court promoting joint custody and cooperation after separation, as its founders envisaged, the Family Court rapidly became a law unto itself, imposing sole custody on separating families despite all the documented harm of this style of custody order, while denying non-custodial parents contact with their children on the flimsiest of excuses.

Overly legalistic, enormously bureaucratic, secretive, and unaccountable, defying public norms of decency and probity, the ideologically driven Family Court and its so-called evil sister the Child Support Agency have remained remarkably resistant to reform and indifferent to the public odium they attract.

Successive governments from both left and right have failed to listen to their constituents and respond to their concerns. They have resorted to vested inquiries in the hands of the mandarins and publicly funded elites whose feigned attempts to listen to the views of ordinary people are a stain on the Australian Public Service.

In terms of human suffering, the Australian public has already paid dearly for the failure to fix outdated, badly administered and inappropriate institutions dealing with family breakdown. The country's failure to reform family law and child support is ultimately a failure of democracy itself.



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I strongly recommend this book, which compellingly demonstrates that the family law system allows false accusations to destroy innocent people and alienate good parents from their children. John Stapleton must be congratulated for providing compelling evidence that the Australian family law system requires a complete overhaul.

Professor Augusto Zimmermann, Former Law Reform Commissioner, Western Australia.

Family law reform is urgently needed to address systemic issues. Failure: Family Law Reform Australia, highlights this with a compelling narrative, exposing the need for reform through powerful examples of real-life injustices.

G. Lawrence DeMarco, Executive Manager, International Council for Men and Boys.

Failure Family Law Reform Australia is a brilliant, comprehensive book that highlights the havoc the family law and child support systems have inflicted on the families and the children of our nation.

Warwick Marsh, Dads4Kids.


Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 1.63 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 598
Genre: Family + Relationships
Sub-Genre: Parenting
Publisher: Sense of Place Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: John Stapleton
Language: English
Street Date: February 28, 2025
TCIN: 1004584247
UPC: 9781763884502
Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-0309
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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