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Article: QLD: Laws needed on de facto relationships, says group
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- December 15, 1998
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AAP General News (Australia)
12-15-1998
QLD: Laws needed on de facto relationships, says group
BRISBANE, Dec 15 AAP - The Queensland government should urgently introduce legislation
governing de facto relationships, a legal group said today.
Family Law Practitioners Association of Queensland president Nita Stratton-Funk said that
like Western Australia and Tasmania, Queensland had no legislation regulating de facto
relationships and the laws in other states varied widely.
"To date, the states have refused to refer powers to determine de facto property disputes
to the commonwealth, being the Family Court," Ms Stratton-Funk said in a statement.
"With figures of 59,750 de ...