Shinohara and Beyond – Wastage and Liabilities
Overview
Wastage and liabilities can impact property settlement outcomes. Join us for a practical guide to the recent changes to the law and how to frame your case
The Family Law Amendment Act 2024 commenced on 10 June 2025 and codified the manner in which the courts deal with liabilities and wastage. The consequences of these changes were highlighted in Shinohara.
This session will:
- Explain the legislative changes
- Discuss the impact of Shinohara
- Provide an update on cases since Shinohara
- Give practical suggestions as to how to protect your client in the post-Shinohara world
Learning Outcomes:
Attendees can expect to learn about the legislative changes to the way family law property settlements deal with wastage, liabilities, interim property settlements and the recent case law, including Shinohara.
Suited to:
Lawyers, accountants and financial planners.
You will also be provided with:
- Access to watch the Live Webinar
- Opportunities to ask real time questions to the presenter/s
- Poll questions to test your knowledge
- Access to On Demand recording, which can be viewed multiple times, for as long as required
- Presenters contact details for follow up questions
- CPD Quiz (for On Demand recordings)
- CPD Certificate
- CPD Report – Logged automatically
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Verbatim Transcript, with Searchability
- Supporting Documentation
Your presenter
Jacky CampbellForte Family Law
is a founding partner of Forte Family Lawyers and has practised as a lawyer specialising in family law for over 40 years. Jacky is recognised as a Leading Family Lawyer in Melbourne by Doyle’s Guide to the Australian Legal Market. Jacky is annually recognised as a Leading Prenuptial Agreement Lawyer, a Leading Family and Divorce Lawyer, a Leading Family Lawyer (High-Value & Complex Property Matters) and a Recommended Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer. Jacky is also recognised by Best Lawyers.
Jacky is the consultant editor of Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Family Law and Practice and contributing author to Wolter Kluwer/CCH Australian Family Law and Practice to the Property, Superannuation and Financial Agreements chapters. She writes several chapters of the Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Family Law Guide and is the author of the family law chapter in Wolters Kluwer/CCH Australian Master Superannuation Guide.
Jacky is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and on the Pensions Committee of the IAFL. She is an Associate of the American Bar Association.