Category: Same Sex Couples

According to a Queensland family lawyer, achieving marriage equality in Australia has also resolved a “legal grey area” for those same-sex couples who were married overseas but are now seeking to divorce. Perhaps the biggest practical effect of the 2017 amendments is that because same-sex couples can now legally marry in Australia, same-sex divorce in Australia also. Gold Coast-based family lawyer Cassandra Pullos (pictured) has spoken about the liberty now afforded to same-sex couples that were married overseas and wanted a divorce. “The flow-on effects of our much-needed marriage equality laws is the ability now for those same-sex couples married...