Upon the dissolution of marriage property has to be taken into consideration of who gets what. This is called property settlement. The property includes all property of the partnership no matter whose name it is in. The term property includes houses, units and land but that is not all furniture, cars boats shares and even superannuation can be divided up amongst the two parties. The scheme of the family law act is to encourage agreement …showed first 75 words of 1695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1695 total…marriage could be annulled if the person felt pressured into the marriage. The final step truthfulness to you and your partner in thinking the marriage will last for life. For the rate of 5.3 marriages in 2001 per 1000 there were 2.8 divorces. However this does not mean that half of all marriages will end up in divorce. This assignment is required to compare the dissolutions of de facto's and married couples so that will be the main focus.