Family Law Act (other)
Family Law Act may refer to: * Family Law Act 1975, Australia * Family Law Act 1996, UK * Family Law Act (Alberta), Canada *Ontario Family Law Act The ''Family Law Act'' (the Act) is a statute passed by the Legislature of Ontario in 1990, regulating the rights of spouses and dependants in regard to property, support, inheritance, prenuptial agreements, separation agreements, and other mat ...

Family Law Act 1975
The ''Family Law Act 1975'' (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia. It has 15 parts and is the primary piece of legislation dealing with divorce, parenting arrangements between separated parents (whether married or not), property separation, and financial maintenance involving children or divorced or separated ''de facto'' partners: in Australia. It also covers family violence. It came into effect on 5 January 1976, repealing the ''Matrimonial Causes Act 1961'', which had been largely based on fault. On the first day of its enactment, 200 applications for divorce were filed in the Melbourne registry office of the Family Court of Australia, and 80 were filed in Adelaide, while only 32 were filed in Sydney. Background Though the Commonwealth had the power since federation in 1901 to make laws affecting divorce and related matters such as custody and maintenance, it did not enact such national uniform laws until 1961, when the ''Matrimonial Causes Act 1959'' came into ...
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Family Law Act 1996
The Family Law Act 1996c 27 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom governing divorce law and marriage. The law intends to modernise divorce and to shift slightly towards "no fault" divorce from the fault-based approach of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. The main part of the Act, dealing with divorce, was not proceeded with after pilot schemes found that it did not work well. Contents Part I of the Act sets out the philosophical approach to divorce. Part II set out a procedure for divorce which required spouses seeking divorce to attend a preliminary Information Session and to seek mediation as a first step. Part II and related sections of other parts were repealed and partially replaced by section 18 of the Children and Families Act 2014 after they were abandoned in practice in 1999. Part III of the act concerns provision of legal aid for mediation in family law and divorce. Part IV set out the mechanisms and principles related to family homes (in particular Family Law ...
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Family Law Act (Alberta)
The ''Family Law Act'' came into force in the Canadian province of Alberta on October 1, 2005. It replaced the '' Domestic Relations Act'', the '' Maintenance Order Act'', the '' Parentage and Maintenance Act'', and parts of the '' Provincial Court Act'' and the '' Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act'' in that province. Provincial vs national While the federal ''Divorce Act'' governs issues arising on divorce in the province of Alberta, matrimonial proceedings other than divorce are governed by the ''Family Law Act'' which owes its origins to a major research project that was undertaken by the Alberta Law Reform Institute. See also *Family Law Act (Ontario) The ''Family Law Act'' (the Act) is a statute passed by the Legislature of Ontario in 1990, regulating the rights of spouses and dependants in regard to property, support, inheritance, prenuptial agreements, separation agreements, and other mat ... References External linksAlberta Courts Web Site
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