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MCG Legal are a team of Gold Coast lawyers, our law firm is located in Southport on the Gold Coast, providing quality legal advice in a number of areas of law. Working primarily within Queensland, MCG Legal can provide assistance throughout Australia.
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Children can sometimes find themselves in the middle of separation disputes when one parent tries to relocate the children, such that the relocation makes it significantly more difficult for the child to spend time with the other parent. Obviously, these situations are can be traumatic for everyone, ...
We love supporting local businesses. Both with our practice and with our wallets! Especially local restaurants!! It has been a tough market for a lot of restaurant owners in Australia for some years. Rising costs, changing spending habits and shifting demographics have made it hard for even the bette...
One of the most stressful parts of a divorce process is dealing with child support. It’s important for anyone who finds themselves in that situation, to understand the different types of agreements you can enter into with your partner. A child support agreement is a written agreement between pa...
When you’re busy growing a firm, raising a family, and trying to have a life at the same time, you can neglect to tell your own story (or even reflect on it). This has certainly been the case for us in the past few years. Moving forward though, we’re taking a new direction with our blog a...
Relationships are tough, and going through a breakup is one of the most stressful situations any adult can deal with. Sadly, what makes it even more difficult is not understanding your rights, not knowing what you can do, and feeling stuck. As family lawyers who have gone through relationship breakdo...
Referrals are the lifeblood of professional services firms. And why wouldn’t they be?! As professionals, we tend to deal with similar clients, just at different times and in different points of their lives. Living in a place like the Gold Coast where everyone knows everyone, it is absolutely cr...
“How good will it feel to wake up tomorrow and know that this is behind you?” As a leading family law practice on the Gold Coast, we know just how difficult the divorce process can be for our clients, even when they get the best possible result. We’ve actually been through it ourselves, so ...
Many relationship breakdowns involve children – which leaves the question, “How will the children spend time with their mother and father post separation?”. The paramount consideration in all disputes involving children is the concept of the “child’s best interestsR...
A relationship breakdown involving children can occasionally raise questions about the paternity of the child. Ultimately DNA testing will determine beyond any reasonable doubt who the child’s parents are, but other matters are taken into account before that DNA test is conducted. A child bor...
A relationship breakdown involving children not only affects the parents directly involved, but often the extended family members such as grandparents. The Family Law Act 1975 (“the legislation”) supports the generally held view that children should be entitled to have a relationship with their g...
A written agreement between parents or carers of children about the payments to be made in support their children is called a child support agreement. Child support can be made in all sorts of ways, e.g. direct payment of a set amount to one of the parents/carers into their nominated bank account e...
Some post separation parenting disputes involve the removal of children from their geographical location. Changing a child’s living arrangements, such that it makes it significantly more difficult for the child to spend time with a parent is a major change in a child’s life and something ...
