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Recorded Webinar: Family Court Property Orders: Breaches and Enforcement

Breaches of Family Court orders often arise in property matters. Whether there is a reasonable excuse is often in dispute. This session looks at practical and procedural requirements in enforcing court orders including: Dealing with breaches of court orders – what are your opti

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About the Webinar

Breaches of Family Court orders often arise in property matters. Whether there is a reasonable excuse is often in dispute. This session looks at practical and procedural requirements in enforcing court orders including:

  • Dealing with breaches of court orders – what are your options?
  • Who can apply for an enforcement hearing?
  • Preparing for and attending the enforcement hearing
  • Standard of proof in enforcement hearings
  • How to address the ‘reasonable excuse’ defense
  • Is the pandemic a valid excuse?
  • Financial disclosure and enforcement
  • Enforcement of property orders – case studies
  • What enforcement matters can be dealt with by the registrar?
  • Cost issues

Presented By

John Spender
Principal, Kennedy Partners Melbourne, Vic

John is a partner of Kennedy Partners. He is recognised throughout the Melbourne family law community as a leading family lawyer and has expertise in all areas of family law, including complex parenting and property disputes, financial and child support agreements, and international matters involving forum and jurisdictional disputes.

John has been practising in family law since 1993. After working in various firms, including a major eastern suburbs law firm in Melbourne, he joined Kennedy Wisewoulds (as the firm then was) in 2007, and became a partner of the firm in 2012.

John has been an accredited family law specialist since 2003. He has been a member of various committees of the Family Law Section of the Law Institute of Victoria since 2003 chairing the Maintenance and Property Sub Committee between 2011 and 2018 and the Courts Practice Committee since 2019. He was a sessional teacher and marker within the family law elective of the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice Course with the Australian National University between 2011 and 2016. He has been a sessional lecturer and tutor at Deakin University since 2021.

John is regularly sought out by legal publications and continuing professional development (CPD) providers to contribute to the pool of discussions around the interpretation, and evolving nature, of the court’s approach to resolving family law disputes. He was a consulting editor as to family law precedents for LexisNexis between 2013 and 2015. In June 2019, John co-organised and presented at a family law conference in Malta, involving judicial officers, lawyers and psychologists from each of Malta, Australia and the United States.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is suitable for lawyers practising in family law – Australia wide. This webinar is for practitioners with some knowledge in this area and looking to improve their knowledge.

CPD Information

Lawyers can claim up to 1 CPD unit/point – substantive law . This webinar has been designed to run for 1 hour, however, webinar lengths can vary depending on the level of questions and discussion. WA lawyers – From April 1 st 2021, due to the new requirements we are unable to verify your completion of recorded webinars to the Legal Practice Board of WA.

Enquiries/Assistance

If you need assistance or have an enquiry, please do not hesitate to contact our Webinar Coordinator, Lisa Tran on (03) 8601 7709 or email: [email protected]

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