The Family Court’s recent Annual Report reveals that there was a 7% increase in Applications filed in the Court from the previous year. Other interesting statistics include:
-Approximately 100,000 applications were filed throughout Australia- of which Divorce Applications accounted for 47,174.
-18.3% of Applications filed were for Final Orders, whilst 20.1% of all Applications filed were for Interim Orders .
-59% of Family Law Applications related to children’s arrangements, while 31% were related to financial matters and 9% were a combination of the two.

At The Norton Law Group, we successfully settled over 97% of family law disputes without the need for a final hearing. Of the 3% of matters which proceeded to a final hearing all matters obtained verdicts well within our recommended and predicted range. We believe our success rate is owed to our strong mediation and negotiation skills couped with our strong advocacy skills. As Accredited Specialists in Family Law we remain 100% committed to securing the best results for our clients whilst employing the most cost effective measures to achieve these outcomes.

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2 Responses to “Family Lawyers Sydney”

family law sydney said on April 20th, 2011 at 7:09 am

Very good statistics and increasing ratio for family lawyers. Actually most of the family matter is related to the kids. That’s pretty surprising.

matthew said on May 11th, 2011 at 8:31 am

Just look at the ratio of Divorced Applications, almost half of the total number of applications. Very sad. It’s very ncie that financial issues haev lesspercentage among the family law.

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