Australian Advice

ForQueenandCountry82 · 2025-08-15T19:49:43+00:00

What do you want to know mate? I'm 5 years post divorce so might be able to help.

watermelonstrong · 2025-08-15T09:59:47+00:00

I'm in WA. The 50/50 split is the glaringly wrong part you have in your post. Also superannuation is included in the asset pool.

If you two can sign consent orders between yourselves, fantastic no lawyers involved draw it all up and present it to the court to be court ordered. The magistrate who signs the orders has to deem them fair and equitable even if you both agree, they won't sign. This isn't typically a concern though.

And so then, one party buys the other out of the house or the house sells if no-one can afford that. Now all of this is a unicorn situation you don't often see.

Most likely you'll both have a lawyer, and assuming you were the breadwinner in the relationship, her lawyer will fight for a much more drastic split - mine tried to offer me essentially an 80/20 split, which was ridiculous. I requested something like 55/45 split.

So ideally when lawyers are involved, both parties submit consent orders to review. Ours were so fucking far apart in what we would accept, we ended up going to what's called a conciliation conference.

We met with a registrar? I think the term was, and she has the power to sign consent orders on the day, if both parties can hash it all out. You want to do this, if this cannot be achieved, it goes to family law court and becomes the extremely expensive, drawn out thing you hear horror stories about. 10's of thousands will be spent on both sides.

So anyway we had the conference , registrar listened to both sides, take a couple breaks, and my ex was I suppose advised to reality and ended up offering 60/40 which I accepted, the registrar wrote up consent orders and we both signed And that was that for me

Title	Australian Advice
Author	TADU2023
Upvotes	2
Comments	6
Date	August 15, 2025 9:17 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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