Fairness in Child Support (F.I.C.S.)'s next meeting

 

Fairness in Child Support (F.I.C.S.)'s next meeting

Fairness in Child Support (F.I.C.S.)'s meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month (except for January). Topics that are discussed, include but are not limited to child support, custody and family violence issues. The meetings commence at 7.30 PM and are held at the Coniston Community Hall, Coniston (which is located between the Coniston Railway Station and the Phoenix Theatre). Coniston is a suburb of Wollongong.

Our next meeting will be held on Thursday 6 November 2025. Subsequent meetings will then be held on 4 December 2025, (not January 2026), 5 February 2026, 5 March 2026, 2 April 2026, 7 May 2026 and 4 June 2026. 

Please contact John Flanagan on 0415 899 574 for further details.

Everyone is welcome. There is no charge for attendance.

Regards

 

John Flanagan,

Secretary,

Fairness In Child Support.

http://fairnessinchildsupport.blogspot.com/

 Family Law Amendment Bill 2024.

The Family Law Amendment Act 2024 was passed by Parliament on 10 December 2024. This Act amends the Family Law Act 1975. It allows unproven family violence accusations to provide a greater transfer of the property (and superannuation) from one party to the other party. This is after divorce or separation.

These changes become effective on 10 June 2025.

These amendments to the Family Law Act will no doubt create further litigation. This is primarily due to the greater testing of this unproven evidence. As a result, there will be increased costs, further delays and more impact on the participants.  

The Bill had been rushed through Parliament at a breakneck speed on the last day of Parliament for 2024.  

As a result, there were only 33 submissions on the Bill. Of these 33 submissions, 29 of this number were published and supported the Bill. A further 3 submissions were marked "confidential" and were unpublished. That left our submission as being the only one published that did not support the Bill.

One can only speculate on the motives behind the 29 other published submissions that did support the Bill.

 

Family Law Amendment Act 2023.

With the passing of the Family Law Amendment Act 2023, Labor has removed the equal shared parental responsibility provision from family law. The amendments also effectively do away with shared parenting. This will lead to more disconnected relationships and unjust outcomes for the non-custodial parent. However the non-custodial parent, i.e the one without the parental responsibility, will still have the responsibility for paying child support! 

Incredibly four senior Liberal Senators (viz Askew, Cash, Henderson and Rushton) actually voted for the Bill. The remaining Liberals and Nationals abstained.

Labor has a history of anti-family efforts.

Labor brought in the Family Law Act in 1975, the child support legislation in 1988 and 1989, domestic violence changes and the removal of penalties for perjury in 2011 and now the removal of equal shared parent responsibility and more in 2023. Further anti-family legislation is happening in 2024, with regard to property and superannuation.   

We made a submission on the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee's inquiry. However the Bill was passed by Parliament. The amended legislation then became effective on 6 May 2024. 

 

Fairness in Child Support (F.I.C.S.)'s next meeting

Fairness in Child Support (F.I.C.S.)'s meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month (except for January). The meetings commence at 7.30 PM and are held at the Coniston Community Hall, Coniston (which is located between the Coniston Railway Station and the Phoenix Theatre). Coniston is a suburb of Wollongong. NSW.

Our next meeting will be held on Thursday 1 February 2024. Please contact John Flanagan on 0415 899 574 for further details.

We will be discussing family law and child support issues.

Everyone is welcome. There is no charge for attendance.

Regards

 

John Flanagan,

Secretary,

Fairness In Child Support.

http://fairnessinchildsupport.blogspot.com

P.S. The F.I.C.S. meeting dates for 2024 will be 1 February 2024, 7 March 2024, 4 April 2024, 2 May 2024, 6 June 2024, 4 July 2024, 1 August 2024, 5 September 2024, 3 October 2024, 7 November 2024 and 5 December 2024.

The Fairness In Child Support Meetings will be re-started.

Hi to Everyone

The Fairness In Child Support (F.I.C.S) Meetings will be re-started. They have been put on standby as a result of the Covid19  Virus issue since March 2020.

The meetings will be held again on the usual monthly basis.

The next meeting will be held at the Coniston Community Hall, 26 Bridge Street, Coniston. NSW. 2500.  It will start at 7.30pm on Thursday 4 February 2021 (we do not meet in January).

Everyone is Welcome.

John Flanagan

Secretary

April and May 2020 Meetings Cancelled. 

Hi to Everyone.

The proposed April and May meetings of Fairness in Child Support (F.I.C.S.) at the Coniston Community Hall (near Wollongong) for 2020 have been cancelled.

The June meeting will be assessed at a later time. Hopefully the corona virus may have reached a plateau by that stage

Please contact John Flanagan on 0415 899 574 if you require any further details.

Regards

John Flanagan,

Secretary,

Fairness In Child Support.

http://fairnessinchildsupport.blogspot.com/

Most politicians have ignored letter sent by Fairness In Child Support (F.I.C.S.)

On 24 December 2019, Fairness In Child Support (F.I.C.S.) sent a letter to our Australian Federal politicians. In the letter we outlined our proposals for the necessary reform to family law and child support.

There are 226 Federal parliamentarians (150 in the House of Representatives and 76 in the Senate). We have received replies from only 8 parliamentarians. This just under 4 per cent.

The 8 parliamentarians that replied were:

1. Sharon Bird MP (NSW) - our local member of the House of Representatives.
2. Senator Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania).
3. Katie Allen MP (Victoria).
4. Senator Claire Chandler (Tasmania)
5. Stuart Robert MP, (Queensland), Minister for Government Services.
6. Senator Mathias Corman, (Western Australia), Minister of Finance.
7. Terri Butler MP (Queensland).
8. Senator Perin Davey (NSW).

It is obvious that most Federal Parliamentarians do not care about family law and child support reform.

John Flanagan
Secretary,
Fairness In Child Support (F.I.C.S.).
PO Box 57
Thirroul. NSW. 2500.