Webinar On Demand - Family Law and Trusts

1 CPD Point – Substantive Law
With the developments in case law and upcoming changes to legislation, it is worth taking a moment to consider how family law can impact on trust assets in the event of a relationship breakdown.

In this webinar, Family Law and Trusts, Jemma Mackenzie from Forte Family Lawyers provides an update of the continuous evolution of family law and how it impacts on trusts. During the webinar, Jemma will cover:

• How property matters are determined under the Family Law Act 1975:
  • currently; and
  • under proposed amendments to the Act
• Property v Financial Resources
• Discretionary trusts
• Kennon and Spry [2008] HCA 56
• Has the way trusts are treated in Australian family law changed since Spry?
• Recent cases including Woodcock (No. 2) [2022] FedCFam1F 173
• What do professionals and parties need to consider?

This practical session is designed for practitioners and advisers working with trusts and will take a deep dive into how family law interacts with trusts and trust property.

This webinar is suitable for lawyers, accountants and other professional advisers, and is pitched at an intermediate level.

Continuing Professional Development

Legal CPD:

WA legal practitioners (QA Provider ID 29250)

1 CPD point, Competency Area 4 – Substantive Law. To ensure you receive your CPD Points for this event, please provide us with your Legal Practice Board Practitioner ID during registration. Note: CPD Points are only uploaded to the Legal Practice Board after the Webinar On Demand is viewed. This is not an interactive activity.

Legal practitioners outside of WA

If you consider that this webinar satisfies your individual requirement, or is relevant to your immediate or long-term professional development needs, you may claim 0.5 CPD points for every 30 minutes of attendance and participation.

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Presenter: Jemma Mackenzie
Partner – Forte Family Lawyers

Jemma is a partner of Forte Family Lawyers. She has worked in family law for approximately 15 years and obtained Specialist Accreditation as a Family Lawyer from the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) in 2015.

Jemma has experience in a wide variety of family law cases including complex property disputes, maintenance, Financial Agreements (including pre-nuptial), children’s matters, child support and family violence.

Jemma is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers a global association of lawyers recognised by their professional colleagues for their skill and experience. Jemma is routinely engaged to act in international matters, including parenting and financial cases, and jurisdictional/forum disputes.

In addition to her daily work with clients, Jemma has authored papers and presented seminars to peers in the legal professional, financial advisors and medico-legal professionals.

Jemma is a member of the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the LIV and the LIV Parenting Working Group. She is also a member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and of Victorian Women Lawyers.