Ashleigh Morris

In Abbott & Dale [2025], the Court rejected a "separate finances" defence after a 20-year de facto relationship. While the wife sought a 0% adjustment, the Court found their lives and business inextricably merged. Notably, the husband’s post-separation violence was assessed not as a penalty, but through the lens of the wife’s future requirements and diminished capacity. Ultimately, the Court ordered a contribution split of 40/60 as sought by the husband.

I've watched colleagues fracture beneath the accumulated grief of strangers.The family lawyer who excavates her own failed marriage in each bitter cus...

There is a particular quality of light in the corridor outside a courtroom on the morning of a trial. It is neither kind nor unkind. It is simply the light that exists when things are about to become real. It is in that corridor - not in the courtroom itself - where some of the most important work in family law actually happens - empowering a client to settle when they're geared to fight.