Tag: gisele reid
  • Family Law

A Tough Job

Before you can become a plumber or a carpenter you have to undertake years of technical training, work under close and exacting supervision, sit for exams, and earn your ticket. No one gets to be a doctor, lawyer or accountant unless they first qualify for university, then study day and night for years, sit regular and sometimes arduous examinations, and pass with flying colours. But to become a parent, all you have to do is find a partner, cross your fingers, and hope for the best.
  • Domestic Violence, Employment Law, Family Law

Leave Stress

Recent legislative changes in New Zealand introducing 10 days paid leave for victims of domestic violence, are likely to throw up some thorny issues on both sides of ‘The Ditch.”
  • Family Law, Litigation

Sperm and Eggs

The Six Degrees of Separation being what they are, you almost certainly know someone, or someone who knows someone, who’s currently undergoing fertility treatment. It may or may not come as a surprise to you, but thousands of couples undergo fertility treatment in Australia every year. The latest data on Assisted Reproductive Technology in Australia and New Zealand shows 77,721 treatment cycles were reported in 2015. Of those, 92% were from Australian clinics. That means a whole lot of laboratory fertilisation procedures are happening out there. But the question is: who owns all those sperm and eggs?
  • Family Law

For The Love Of Money

We all like to be kept in the manner to which we are accustomed. Under the Family Law Act 1975, when a married couple breaks up, each is expected to maintain his or her former spouse to the extent they are reasonably able, if their former spouse is unable to support themselves adequately. It’s called spousal maintenance.
  • Family Law

Sadly, A Growth Industry – Relationship Breakdown And Separation

In the mid-1960’s around 10% of all Australian marriages ended in divorce. According to the Australian Institute of Family Studies today that figure has ballooned to around 40%. Relatively little is known about de facto relationships, but their rates of failure are estimated to be even higher. Sadly, marriage breakdown has become a growth industry.
  • Family Law, Migration

Introducing Gisele Reid – Family and Migration Law

Next Monday, when Nyst Legal officially re-opens its doors for 2016, we will have the pleasure of welcoming aboard an exciting new addition to our professional ranks. Gisele Reid is a promising young lawyer who will join us this year to practise in the fields of Family Law, Civil Litigation and Migration Law. Born and bred in Sao Paulo Brazil, she speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish, and has extensive links to the expatriate Brazilian community on the Gold Coast. After coming here as a tourist in 2007, Gisele was so impressed with the Queensland lifestyle she decided to stay put, eventually enrolling in the Bachelor of Laws degree course at Bond University. Following her graduation from Bond in 2012, she practised extensively in Family Law with esteemed Family Law specialist, the late Mr Charles Cooper, and in 2016 she will join Nyst Legal to work primarily in our Family Law division. Meanwhile, she will also continue to service the business and other migration law needs of her clientele. We proudly welcome Gisele to the Nyst Legal line-up.
  • Family Law

Dalliance Discounts – De Facto Provisions Of The Family Law Act

If you're thinking of sharing your bed with someone sometime soon, it might be best to stop and think about precisely what you may be signing up for. Since 1 March 2009 the Family Law Act has applied not only to married couples, but also to people living together in a de facto relationship. That means you don't have to be legally married to someone in order to become entitled to a share of their assets if and when the relationship breaks down. If a court interprets the union between two people to be in the nature of a de facto relationship, the property of both parties will be up for grabs when the final curtain falls. And that can sometimes lead to somewhat unexpected consequences.