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I suppose I didn't make it clear before, but I practice in family law among other things. Although admittedly I don't practice extensively in family law property. And there are actually quite a few things a person can do to "protect" their assets in a potential family law dispute, apart from...

You're now actually just making things up. Show me a single case where a spouse started with nothing, contributed very little, and somehow ended up with 50% of the assets. The other issue would be what the working spouse was doing all this time. Presumably, they were apparently happy for...

Well for what its worth I completely agree with Terry in that the Family Law Act is a very fair and balanced piece of legislation. Also, I can add that every case I've read and seen has been a fair decision taking into account the circumstances of the case. I can also say that nearly every...

It doesn't work exactly like that. In your scenario you probably wouldn't get anywhere close to half the asset pool. However, there are many similar situations where the partner working the lower paid job is either looking after the children, or otherwise encouraged not to work their low...

You seem so afraid of something like that happening again... isn't simply not getting into another de facto relationship or marriage the best protection. If you don't want to be that extreme, there are quite a lot of protections in the way you carry yourself in a relationship. For example...